topic Re: stty: : Not a typewriter in Operating System - Linux

stty: : Not a typewriter

pathri — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:40:06 GMT

Hi,
When i write a small scrit as follows, i get the error message in subject.

sttyset=`stty -g`
exec < t
while read line
do
echo $line
done
stty $sttyset
read aa

Can somebody pls advice how to read back again from keyboard.

Re: stty: : Not a typewriter

generic_1 — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:28:56 GMT

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90046/ch21s04.html
this will teach you read in korn

Re: stty: : Not a typewriter

Steve Steel — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 02:20:03 GMT

Hi

Have a look at

www.shelldorado.com

Great for starting out in shells

Steve Steel

Re: stty: : Not a typewriter

Simon Hargrave — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:14:03 GMT

Your use of exec is now correct, you are replacing your entire shell. You only want to feed the contents of t into the while..do..done block, so change your code thus:

sttyset=`stty -g`
while read line
do
echo $line
done < t
stty $sttyset
read aa