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Old 03-19-2009
wabard wabard is offline
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Originally Posted by hootdocta5 View Post
what exactly does the a represent in this code?

Dummy variable to force the while to loop forever... you exit out of the infinite loop with the "break" statement.

Note: I made a mistake in the "cp" command line option in the example above (corrected and noted).