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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting until loop and read Post 302392932 by kl1ngac1k on Saturday 6th of February 2010 01:49:39 PM
Old 02-06-2010
until loop and read
Hi guys
what I wanna do is to create a script where can I input several times a file - assume with read function that will be inserted into a temp. file for further processing. When I press q I want that the loop will stop and continue in my script

I typed this but the options q is not working

Hi guys
what I wanna do is to create a script where can I input several times a file - assume with read function that will be inserted into a temp. file for further processing. When I press q I want that the loop will stop and continue in my script

I typed this but its absolutely working as I hoped

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
touch input.txt
echo "Insert name of file: "
#read filename
while [ "$filename" != "q" ]
read filename
do
        echo $filename >> input.txt
done
exit

Ok this does sends every $filename to input.txt but seends also q, which should led to stop the loop. Can you give me a hint what is wrong and also is there way to omit blank lines.

Thank you in advance
Last edited by pludi; 02-06-2010 at 03:13 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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