RE: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux M

[Ed Vance]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:03 AM, Jean-Luc Leger wrote:
> > Larry McVoy <[e-mail]> 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