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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do you use pull data from multiple lines to do a for statement? Post 302384906 by Corona688 on Wednesday 6th of January 2010 03:36:56 PM
Old 01-06-2010
You could convert newlines to spaces, then add newlines back only where you want them:
Code:
tr '\n' ' ' < input | sed 's/}/}\n/g' | while read LINE
do
        ...
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

smd-pull

smd-pull(1)						 Sync Mail Dir (smd) documentation					       smd-pull(1)

NAME

       smd-pull - syncs the local mail dir letting the remote one untouched

SYNOPSIS

       smd-pull [-d|--dry-run] [-v|--verbose] [-s|--show-tags] [-t|--template-only]
		[-n|--no-delete] [endpoint]

DESCRIPTION

       smd-pull performs in the local maildir all the changes that were performed on remote one.

       No changes are made on the remote maildir. Use smd-push(1) for that.

       Refer to smd-config(5) for the configuration file format.

OPTIONS

       -v --verbose
	      Verbose output

       -s --show-tags
	      Machine readable output

       -d --dry-run
	      Do not perform any action for real

       -n --no-delete
	      Do not propagate deletions

       -t --template-only
	      Just create a template configuration file if none

       endpoint
	      Is the suffix for the name of the configuration file to use. If it is omitted, the configuration file ~/.smd/config.default is used.

FILES

       ~/.smd/config.*	~/.smd/hooks/pre-pull.d/ ~/.smd/hooks/post-pull.d/

SEE ALSO

       mddiff(1), smd-server(1), smd-client(1), smd-push(1), smd-loop(1), smd-config(5)

AUTHOR

       Enrico Tassi <gares@fettunta.org>

								   11 June 2012 						       smd-pull(1)
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