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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Intermittent problem reading from an input file. Post 302332992 by Wallygooo32 on Friday 10th of July 2009 02:38:25 PM
Old 07-10-2009
Thanks for the extra info. It makes more sense now that I know you were assuming i was running it like this:
cat $file|yourscript.ksh

The source file is basically static so the file it reads through is hardcoded into the script - i don't pass anything to the main ksh script.

I made a copy of the script and I'm trying a variation of what you suggested. I changed the read loop so that it greps the file prior to reading the lines. I removed the cat statement since it seem like it might be a UUOC - if there's a good reason to cat the file then pipe to grep let me know. Here's the read loop I'm testing.

Code:
grep -v "#" ${C}sourcefile | while read ROUTER EIGRPNEI PROBLEMCOUNT
do
    ${C}report.exp $ROUTER $b $c $d > ${C}${ROUTER}.txt 2>/dev/null &
done
wait

Thanks again!!

---------- Post updated at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:30 PM ----------

Tony,

i tried your suggestion and still had some problems...thanks for the idea though.
 

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