On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I am very new to script writing so pardon my ignorance. I have been > working from the bash man page. It indicates that read (with no > parameters) puts the line read into the predefined variable REPLY. My > problem is that I don't seem to be able to *use* the variable. With a line > like: echo "$(REPLY)" or echo $(REPLY) I get the error : REPLY command not > found. If I try: echo REPLY the output is just REPLY. > How do I get the contents of reply?
I'm not much of a shell programmer myself, but I think $(REPLY) will try to execute the file REPLY in a subshell. However, you can access the value of the variable REPLY with $REPLY (no parens). 'echo REPLY' will just display "REPLY", but 'echo $REPLY' will echo the value of the variable $REPLY. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Gerry
