ubuntu: bin/read

eantoranz · 07-09-2009, 09:55 AM

Hi!

I'm working on a shell script for csh (not bash). I need to be able to call a read binary (as it's not a built in) but it's not available on ubuntu (at least not according to apt-file).

Where can I find a package for it? Or maybe the source so I can build it?

Thanks in advance.

David the H. · 07-10-2009, 04:56 AM

How about trying a google search first? Certainly you're not the first person to come up against this difficulty.

Google search: csh read

eantoranz · 07-10-2009, 05:04 PM

Thanks for your reply, David. I think I didn't do that search because I had google blinders saying "while read". My fault, anyway.

Now that could work for my needs but I need to be able to set a timeout for the read operation. Is it possible to do that? Perhaps with some black magic signals/killing trickery somehow?