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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting opening a file given as standard input Post 302322973 by shashiprakash81 on Friday 5th of June 2009 03:26:51 AM
Old 06-05-2009
Thanks for your reply

I had following code

#!/bin/bash

processLine(){
line="$@" # get all args
echo $line
}
FILE =""
FILE="$1"
# make sure file exist and readable
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE : does not exists"
exit 1
elif [ ! -r $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE: can not read"
exit 2
fi

exec 0<$FILE
while read line
do
# use $line variable to process line in processLine() function
processLine $line
done
exit 0


Through this code I am able to read line by line but now my requirement is
it should print some lines(say 10) then it should wait for hitting return key then print another 10 line. Just like the way we see help in linux some lines printed then it waits for hitting some key

pl suggest

Regards
Shashi
 

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