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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting why read line skips some lines... Post 302138912 by Perderabo on Wednesday 3rd of October 2007 08:16:04 PM
Old 10-03-2007
I agree will drl. The solution is to redirect stdin prior to running the program.

pkgadd -a $pkgadmin -d ../packages/$pkgfile $pkgname < /dev/null

Reading from /dev/null may not be great when it happens, but subsequent iterations of the loop should be ok.
 

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