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Old 05-16-2008
srikanthg srikanthg is offline
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what is -n1 heere in this syntax
could u explain what is "-n1" here in this syntax

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Originally Posted by LivinFree View Post
What shell? Bash has the `read` builtin where you can do:
Code:
while read -n1 char; do
 #do something with the byte in $char
done <input.file