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From: Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com>
To: "'Jean-Luc Leger'" <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
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Subject: RE: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux M
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:56:08 -0800 
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:03 AM, Jean-Luc Leger wrote:
> > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
> > >	bk prs -hrv2.5.0.. |  while read x
> 
> by the way, shouldn't it be "$x" in the second line ?
> or am I missing something ?
> 
> 	JL

man bash
...
    read  [-ers]  [-t  timeout]  [-a  aname]  [-p  prompt] [-n
          nchars] [-d delim] [name ...] 
                              ^^^^
Nope, no "$" on the variable name in this context. The reference 
is to the variable's identifier rather than its value.

Ed Vance
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