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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers While loop seems to exit when blank line is met Post 302421986 by steviefordi on Monday 17th of May 2010 08:29:50 AM
Old 05-17-2010
Ok another thing to try -

What is the exit status of the grep line when EachLine2 contains the empty string. I think that it is failing and causing your loop to exit.

Personally I would add three sets of quotes to the line as such:

Code:
RESULT="$(grep "$EachLine2" "$DATA_DIR"/cells*.dat | cut -d, -f2)"


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