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Old 01-09-2008
read user input from within a wile loop that is being fed from below

hi!
i need to do a ksh script that uses a wile loop that is fed form below

while read line
do
some things
done < myfile

inside the while loop i need to read user input to ask the user what he wants to do, but "read" reads the file, and not the standard input

while read line
do
some thingys
read answer?'what you want to do?'
if and more thingys upon the answer
done < myfile

is that possible ? if so, how to tell the inner read to use stdin ?

if its not possible (i cant be the only one), how is this commonly fixed ? the file i read can get huge for using arrays, so i dont know
thanks
 

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The tpage script is a simple wrapper around the Template Toolkit processor. Files specified by name on the command line are processed in turn by the template processor and the resulting output is sent to STDOUT and can be redirected accordingly. e.g. tpage myfile > myfile.out tpage header myfile footer > myfile.html If no file names are specified on the command line then tpage will read STDIN for input. The "--define" option can be used to set the values of template variables. e.g. tpage --define author="Andy Wardley" skeleton.pm > MyModule.pm See Template for general information about the Perl Template Toolkit and the template language and features. AUTHOR
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