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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Printf problem Post 302422594 by kshji on Wednesday 19th of May 2010 12:52:58 AM
Old 05-19-2010
If you use sed, grep, ... to search with "field" value, then search have to include delimiters
Code:
A=`sed -n "/^$1:/p" /etc/passwd`

Why use exec, why not pipe ?
Code:
cat "$FILE" | while

Or redirect
Code:
while ...
do
   ...
done < "$FILE"

 

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chicken-bug [ filename | OPTION ... ] OPTIONS
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chicken-bug generates a bug report file that collects user-input, optional files and system information obtained from the installed CHICKEN executables and libraries. Non-option arguments given on the command line are inserted into the bug report. If no option is given, or if - has been passed on the command line, then a description of the problem is read from standard input, until EOF (CTRL-D) or a line consisting only of "." (period) is read. The bug report will be written to a file in the current directory, which should be sent to CHICKEN maintainers as it contains various use- ful bits of information that make it easier to classify the problem described. Bug reports should be as detailed as possible. It is also very helpful to include code that reproduces the problem. The more detailed the input and the more thorough the description is, the easier you make it for the CHICKEN developers to help you. BUGS
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