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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read statement not working in a script Post 302384622 by sumitdua on Wednesday 6th of January 2010 03:00:52 AM
Old 01-06-2010
Read statement not working in a script
I have a script consisting of certain functions whose input is a file at same location. In that file i have written the name of anothe file at same location. The third file contains a word which act as a function in the first script.Let me give an example
i have a scrip file say 1.sh in which i am reading the contents of file b line wise. let say contents of b is Run Pause. Pause is a third file whose content is Suspend.
so in 1.sh i am extracting the keyword Suspend and then calling a script halt .sh who content is

Code:
echo "Press y to continue"
while read ans
do
  if [ $ans = 'y' ]
  then
    exit 1
  else
    echo "Incorrect entry"
  fi
done
echo "Exiting"

Now here the script doesnt stop at read and continue executing till the last.Pls tell what should i do in this case?
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-06-2010 at 04:12 AM.. Reason: Please indent your code and use code tags!
 

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script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a    Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)
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