Hi,
It's my first time on here, so hello everybody!
Okay, the above message description probably makes no kind of sense so I'll just chuck the code down and explain the problem:

Here's the offending bit of code. Basically it is intended to go through all the files in a directory and ask the user if he wants to delete them or not.

########################################

ls | \
while read LINE
do
echo "Line is $LINE. Delete (y/n)?"
read ANSWER
echo "Answer is $ANSWER"
done

#########################################

I am trying this out on a directory that has 2 files in it, file1 and file2.
Here is the output:

Line is file1. Delete (y/n)?
Answer is file2

Then the loop exits.

So when "ANSWER" is read what is actually happening is that the second item of the WHILE loop (file2) is being read into ANSWER and then, because there is nothing left for the while loop to loop through at that point, the loop is exited. I want the loop to stop and wait for my input (y or n) and only then continue. Any ideas anyone? I'm guessing the answer is something simple, I am quite new to UNIX, so this no doubt a schoolboy error of some sort.

dkieran,
See if this works for you:

Hey Shell Life,
Thanks very much for your response! It works!
I don't know why it works, though. If you have the time to explain it, I would really appreciate that. Thanks for the tip!
D