Thus spoke David Douthitt:

> On 24 Jan 2001, at 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > David, is this anything like 'read -t' in less-stripped (non-lrp)
> > systems? Tom Eastep, the guy who wrote Seattle Firewall, had to
> > work around a missing '-t' option in read for the LRP package of
> > Seawall...
>
> I don't know.  That "-t" option sure is missing alright: doesn't exist
> in pdksh, tcsh, bash, or ash.  You sure it exists?  :-)
>
> What is it?
>
>

It exists in bash

        -t <seconds>

Causes the read to terminate after <seconds> seconds...

-Tom
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