[Help-bash] Question :: bash read with timeout only works once?

[Philip Van-Houtte]

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Hello,



I have a problem with reads using timeouts. Either in shell, sub-shell or
script it seems "read with timeout" will only work once, i.e. if I have
multiple read with timeout statements only the first will be able to
timeout and the second will hang...



e.g.

*#/bin/bash*

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*read -p "Enter first value : " -t 5 X*

*read -p "Enter second value : " -t 5 Y*

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*exit 0*



When executed:



> ./s3.sh
Enter first value : Enter second value



The second read doesn't timeout. This is bash 4.1.0



Thank You



Philip



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