Re: [SLUG] Scripting Question

From: Brian Coyle (brianc@magicnet.net)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 22:56:45 EST


Brian Coyle wrote:
>
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > Here's what I've got: I want to be able to peel off one line at a time
> > from a file and process just that line, before going on to the next one.
> > I tried something like:
> >
> > cat myfile | while read ; do
> > do_something $REPLY
> > done
> >
> > but it didn't work. I'm trying to avoid awk, sed, perl and such, and
> > only do this in bash.
> >
> > Any clues?
>

[incorrect example snipped]

OOPS! I hate it when I cut-n-paste the wrong stuff.

Here's a corrected working example.

#
# Reads thru the input file (data_input) and does
# fun things with the lines...
#

cat data_input | while read INPUT
   do
     echo $INPUT
   done

See also: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/redircb.html

Sorry for any confusion.

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