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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Testing for EOF during a while loop Post 302460864 by Sovereign110 on Thursday 7th of October 2010 08:45:16 PM
Old 10-07-2010
Thanks, that actually works...but now I'd like to understand how it works. I think the line I'm most confused with is this one:

if [ "${ans}""X" = "X" ]
Is this the one that tests for EOF? I'm not quite sure what it's doing. All the other lines of script I seem to understand, except this one...
 

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