From: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: builtins, changes et al
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 09:20:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9309201320.AA13632@oldp.astro.wisc.edu> (raw)
> I don't like the idea of a builtin read
> with sh semantics too much. I'd prefer a more general solution,
> some kind of printf - scanf pair which is _not_ builtin. It's already
> part of the GNU shellutils.
The people who have expressed a desire for a built in read (including
myself) have normally used performance as their justification (in the
same way that echo is justified). Your suggestion does nothing for
that.
I feel that the man page for and implementation of a shell level scanf
will be horrid.
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1993-09-20 13:20 Alan Watson [this message]
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1993-09-20 9:42 malte
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