Hi All,
I am currently stuck with a loop and if someone can suggest me a way out . I will be very thankful.
suppose I have a filewhich contains data like:
ABDE345678 24567 JQ12345 8 10 J12
CDEP456789 24564 JQ65432 67 10 J12
I have named this file as print.txt
Now My script is as follows:
Code:
while read record
do
{
echo $record
refno=`awk '{print $2 }' /home/print.txt`
filename=`awk '{print $1 }' /home/print.txt`
period=`awk '{ print $6 }' $/home/print.txt|cut -c 1`
if [ "$period" = "J" ];then
if [ -f /home/rooh/$filename ];then
/bin/lp -d PRINTER_NAME -onobanner -osrb1 -osre10 /home/rooh/$filename
/bin/printf "file for $refno does not exist\n"
fi
else
if [ -f /home/rooh/$filename ];then
/bin/lp -d PRINTER_NAME /home/rooh/$filename
else
/bin/printf "file for $refno does not exist\n"
fi
fi
}
done<"/home/print.txt"
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The problem with this script is that It basically searches both the files at the same time and thus cannot find it :
something like this
-f /home/rooh/ABDE345678 CDEP456789
Can somebody kindly suggest me how to go abt it.
Because I want it to first pick up one file and print it & then look for the second or so on...
For help will be highly appreciated.
Thanx.
Rooh
added code tags for readability --oombera
