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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read after pipe problem OSX10.4 Post 77380 by Perderabo on Thursday 7th of July 2005 03:31:58 PM
Old 07-07-2005
I would not expect this to work with sh, csh, tcsh, or bash.

In ksh, do "whence -v read". read has to be a built-in.

zsh has almost everything that ksh and tcsh has. Many ksh scripts should work on zsh. Or so I'm told... I have never used it.
 

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