Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash
set -x
linenum=1
array=
ps -ef | grep myAgent | grep -v grep | awk '{print $8}' | while read line ;
do
    echo "$linenum : $line"
    set -- $line
    echo "$1"
    array[$linenum]=$1
    echo "  Would you like to analyze this instance ${array[$linenum]} (y/n)? "
    read response  ### this does not work
                if [ "$response" = Y ] || [ "$response" = y ] ; then
                      echo "Analysing"
                      sleep 10
                      # do some thing.. code snip ..
                fi
    linenum=$(( linenum + 1 ))
done

ps -ef | awk '/myAgent/{print $8}' | while read line ;
....
if [ "$response" = Y ] -o [ "$response" = y ] ; then

read response < /dev/tty

#!/bin/ksh
set -x
linenum=1 
array= 
ps -ef | grep myAgent | grep -v grep | awk '{print $8}' |&
while read -p line
do
....

#!/bin/ksh

file=read.txt

exec 3< $file

while read -u3 f
do
  printf 'Your input? (y/n) '
  read answer
  if [ "${answer}" = y ] -o [ "${answer}" = Y ]; then
    echo "answer->[${answer}] readFile->[${f}]"
  fi
done

./test_agent.sh: line 15 [: too many arguments

#!/bin/bash
linenum=1
array=
ps -ef | grep myAgent | grep -v grep | awk '{print $8}' | while read -p line ;
# or this:
# ps -ef | grep -v awk | awk '/myAgent/{print $8}' | while read line ;
#
do
    echo "$linenum : $line"
    set -- $line
    echo "$1"
    array[$linenum]=$1
        echo "  Analyze instance echo ${array[$linenum]} (y/n)? "
                read answer  </dev/tty
                if [ "$answer" = Y ]  ; then
                echo "Analysing"
                # do something
                fi
    linenum=$(( linenum + 1 ))
done