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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Line by line file reading... and more! Post 302128726 by ahmedwaseem2000 on Thursday 26th of July 2007 08:33:43 AM
Old 07-26-2007
alternatively you can use this:

Code:
hour="`date '+%H'`"
for input_line in `cat input_file`
do
   if [ $hour -ne "07" ]
   then
      echo "Proceed line ..."
      hour="`date '+%H'`"
   else
      echo "$input_line" >> not_proceeded_lines
   fi
done

 

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NAME
tart-custom - Template format for LinuxTaRT DESCRIPTION
LinuxTaRT can use a user defined template file to generate the signature. The name and location of this file can be specified in ~/.tartrc, but defaults to the following location: ~/.tart-custom PARAMETERS
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