Re: Troubles in a multiple choice

On Friday 17 November 2006 21:29, you wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 19:59, Luca wrote:
> > Hi Stefan!
> >
> > I'm trying various things like the example you gave me in bash before
> > adding to the configuration files; but this one for the supported
> > languages is giving me various problems; in bash
> >  "grep "$1/" SUPPORTED | while read x ; do echo "$x $x" ; done" outputs
> > nothing; I'm trying from this afternoon commands like this with the
> > "while read do echo" but until now it output nothing on the console.
> >
> > Luca
>
> read treats backslash characters specially by default. Use e.g.:
> 	grep -A9999 "SUPPORTED-LOCALES"  SUPPORTED | while read -r x y ; do echo
> "$x $x" ; done
> or remove the backslashes from SUPPORTED.

Btw. if you change the third line of SUPPORTED to
	SUPPORTED_LOCALES="\
and the last line to
	zu_ZA/ISO-8859-1"
you can just do:
	. SUPPORTED
	echo $SUPPORTED_LOCALES

Greets,
	Stefan Fiedler