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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Control Not Coming Out Of While Loop Post 302243741 by jim mcnamara on Monday 6th of October 2008 12:49:56 PM
Old 10-06-2008
Code:
while read line
do 
    # do thing here
done < inputfile

Plus you cannot read a gz file directly - it is compressed into 'garbage' characters and is not human readable. Use zcat.

If you are entering numbers from the keyboard, to get the loop to stop, use ctrl-D
 

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