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Re: [Help-bash] Question :: bash read with timeout only works once?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Question :: bash read with timeout only works once? |
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Sat, 05 Oct 2013 17:25:41 -0400 |
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On 10/4/13 6:35 PM, Philip Van-Houtte wrote:
> 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...
I can't reproduce this with bash-4.2 or bash-4.1 with various forms of
invocation.
Chet
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