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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Intermittent problem reading from an input file. Post 302332647 by TonyFullerMalv on Thursday 9th of July 2009 05:27:06 PM
Old 07-09-2009
One idea is that if you make sure you always have a space after the # for the comment lines then the line:
Code:
 if [[ "$ROUTER" != *#* ]] ; then

could then be:
Code:
 if [[ "$ROUTER" != "#" ]] ; then

instead which might be more reliable?

Last edited by TonyFullerMalv; 07-20-2009 at 07:41 PM..
 

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LDBMODIFY(1)						    System Administration tools 					      LDBMODIFY(1)

NAME
ldbmodify - Modify records in a LDB database SYNOPSIS
ldbmodify [-H LDB-URL] [ldif-file] DESCRIPTION
ldbmodify changes, adds and deletes records in a LDB database. The changes that should be made to the LDB database are read from the specified LDIF-file. If - is specified as the filename, input is read from stdin. For now, see ldapmodify(1) for details on the LDIF file format. OPTIONS
-H <ldb-url> LDB URL to connect to. See ldb(3) for details. ENVIRONMENT
LDB_URL LDB URL to connect to (can be overrided by using the -H command-line option.) VERSION
This man page is correct for version 1.1 of LDB. SEE ALSO
ldb(3), ldbedit AUTHOR
ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell[1]. If you wish to report a problem or make a suggestion then please see the http://ldb.samba.org/ web site for current contact and maintainer information. This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij. NOTES
1. Andrew Tridgell http://samba.org/~tridge/ LDB 1.1 06/17/2014 LDBMODIFY(1)
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