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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting searching a log file and appending to a .txt file Post 302331922 by rcjmack on Tuesday 7th of July 2009 02:01:46 PM
Old 07-07-2009
Which "cat"?

The first one clears out second.log
The second one puts the contents of values.txt into array $i to loop through.
 

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