1# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 2# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 3# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 4# (at your option) any later version. 5# 6# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 7# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 8# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 9# GNU General Public License for more details. 10# 11# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 12# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 13# 14# non-interactive 15 16# error 17read -n -1 18 19# from pipe -- should work, but doesn't change tty attributes 20echo abcdefg | { 21 read -n 3 xyz 22 echo $xyz 23} 24 25# fewer chars than specified 26echo ab | { 27 read -n 3 xyz 28 echo $xyz 29} 30 31echo abc | { 32 read -N 4 -d$'\n' foo 33 echo $foo 34} 35 36read -n 1 < $0 37echo "$REPLY" 38