12-28-2007
read from console in ksh
I am stuck with a problem while reading data from a file..
while [ 1 ]
do
read line
#do some operations and if some condition is satisfied, ask the user to enter his choice.
# using the choice continue operations.
done < fileBeingRead.txt
The problem is, when i am inside the while loop, I am not able to read data from the console/terminal. Is there any way to temporarily read data from console? and then continue looping ?
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
sh
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