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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read -p "prompt text" foo say "read: bad option(s)" in Bourne-Shell Post 302281042 by pludi on Wednesday 28th of January 2009 05:11:35 AM
Old 01-28-2009
A (very) simple substitute would be
Code:
printf "Prompt: "
read command

 

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Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions(3) 	      HeimdalKerberos5library		   Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions(3)

NAME
Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions - Functions KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_eai_to_heim_errno (int eai_errno, int system_error) KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_h_errno_to_heim_errno (int eai_errno) KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION void KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_clear_error_message (krb5_context context) KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION void KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_set_error_message (krb5_context context, krb5_error_code ret, const char *fmt,...) __attribute__((format(printf KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_vwarn (krb5_context context, krb5_error_code code, const char *fmt, va_list ap) __attribute__((format(printf Detailed Description Function Documentation KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION void KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_clear_error_message (krb5_context context) Clears the error message from the Kerberos 5 context. Parameters: context The Kerberos 5 context to clear KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_eai_to_heim_errno (int eai_errno, int system_error) Convert the getaddrinfo() error code to a Kerberos et error code. Parameters: eai_errno contains the error code from getaddrinfo(). system_error should have the value of errno after the failed getaddrinfo(). Returns: Kerberos error code representing the EAI errors. KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_h_errno_to_heim_errno (int eai_errno) Convert the gethostname() error code (h_error) to a Kerberos et error code. Parameters: eai_errno contains the error code from gethostname(). Returns: Kerberos error code representing the gethostname errors. KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION void KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_set_error_message (krb5_context context, krb5_error_code ret, const char * fmt, ...) Set the context full error string for a specific error code. The error that is stored should be internationalized. The if context is NULL, no error string is stored. Parameters: context Kerberos 5 context ret The error code fmt Error string for the error code ... printf(3) style parameters. KRB5_LIB_FUNCTION krb5_error_code KRB5_LIB_CALL krb5_vwarn (krb5_context context, krb5_error_code code, const char * fmt, va_list ap) Log a warning to the log, default stderr, include the error from the last failure. Parameters: context A Kerberos 5 context. code error code of the last error fmt message to print ap arguments Version 1.5.2 11 Jan 2012 Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions(3)
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