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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to create one newfile and wants include some lines based on user request Post 302401784 by thillai_selvan on Monday 8th of March 2010 02:00:32 AM
Old 03-08-2010
Try this code.
Code:
echo "Enter a request"
read n
#echo $n
for i in  `seq 1 $n`
do
        echo QAEVO_A1\|A$i | cat >> output
done

output
Code:
sh request.sh
Enter a request
5

cat output

QAEVO_A1|A1
QAEVO_A1|A2
QAEVO_A1|A3
QAEVO_A1|A4
QAEVO_A1|A5

 

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ECHO(1) 								FSF								   ECHO(1)

NAME
echo - display a line of text SYNOPSIS
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