while loop

simmijaswal · #1 (**permalink**) 09-14-2008

Plz specify me the proper syntax for while loop

sanjay03 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-14-2008

This is very simple :-

while condition is true
do
commands
done

That's it.

broli · #3 (**permalink**) 09-15-2008

bigbut57 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-15-2008

cat /etc/hosts -l | while read line
do
ip=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}' `
hostname=`exho $line | awk '{print $2, $3}' `

echo " $host is located at ip address $ip "

done

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