My guess is that you are using a "while read" loop and redirecting a file to standard input. If you want to read from the controlling terminal during the loop, try...
Hi all,
In a while loop, like below...
while read line
do
read choice
case $choice in
1)
echo "xxx"
esac
done < file
why I can't run the read choice???? (3 Replies)
Hi all
Does anyone have a script that will allow me to stop inside a while read loop.
I want to pause the loop until a enter is pressed.
e.g.
While read line
do
echo something
if LINECOUNT > 40
then
read ENTER?"PRESS ENTER TO CONT..."
... (3 Replies)
hi!
i need to do a ksh script that uses a wile loop that is fed form below
while read line
do
some things
done < myfile
inside the while loop i need to read user input to ask the user what he wants to do, but "read" reads the file, and not the standard input
while read line
do
... (2 Replies)
I'm new to BASH and i'm trying to create a script which is simply put a large find and replace file. This is what I have so far
N=0
while read LINE ; do
N=$((N+1))
sed 's/'$2'/'$3'/g' $LINE > .temp
echo "Changes to file $N = $LINE"
echo 'The following changes... (5 Replies)
I need to Write a shell script that allows some system-administration tasks to be preformed automatically from a menu-driven interface. with automated following tasks:
Copy directory tree
Delete files or directories
Output Information (this part is done )
*Copy directory tree
The “Copy... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am reading file records inside a while loop,
and want to update the record when certain condition is met.
How can I update a file while being read?
I want to avoid using temporary files, copy, rename, ...
while IFS=',' read -r f1 f2
do
function(f1,f2)
if
then
<add... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a set of files Xfile0001 - Xfile0021, and the content of this files (one at a time) needs to be printed between some line (lines start with word "Generated") that I am extracting from another file called file7.txt and all the output goes into output.txt. First I tried creating a for... (5 Replies)
Hi
I'm looking to write a simple ksh loop reading user input (and write it to a file) until the user enters QUIT at which point I want it to continue.
Does anyone have an example of this type of loop?
Any help much appreciated
Cheers (2 Replies)
Hi,
This query is a part of a much more lengthy script.
I wish to look for all the files in a folder named "data" which in this case has two files i.e. plan.war and agent.properties. For all the files found under data I wish to ask the user as to where they wish copy the files to.
Below,... (14 Replies)
I'm working on Aix 6.1 and using ksh shell.
The below works fine on Linux bash or ksh shell .
while IFS= read -r dirpath ; do
echo "Hi"
done <<<"$var"
However, any such while loop that reads the input from file or variable using <<< fails on Aix system with the below error:
Below... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
break
break(3tcl) Tcl Built-In Commands break(3tcl)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
break - Abort looping command
SYNOPSIS
break
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
This command is typically invoked inside the body of a looping command such as for or foreach or while. It returns a TCL_BREAK code, which
causes a break exception to occur. The exception causes the current script to be aborted out to the innermost containing loop command,
which then aborts its execution and returns normally. Break exceptions are also handled in a few other situations, such as the catch com-
mand, Tk event bindings, and the outermost scripts of procedure bodies.
EXAMPLE
Print a line for each of the integers from 0 to 5:
for {set x 0} {$x<10} {incr x} {
if {$x > 5} {
break
}
puts "x is $x"
}
SEE ALSO catch(3tcl), continue(3tcl), for(3tcl), foreach(3tcl), return(3tcl), while(3tcl)KEYWORDS
abort, break, loop
Tclbreak(3tcl)