Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I asked Jeff Korn (David Korn's son), who in turn asked David Korn who
> confirmed that 'read -u' comes from ksh and that 'u' stands for 'unit'.

Thank you for your reply....

Is this "the method" ;-) to get a reply from David since he works at Google?

Jörg

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