<$path_to_dir tries to read from that as if it's a filename -- not as if it's a list of lines. Technically it's valid for a filename to have newlines in it, strangley enough! The only invalid characters for a filename are NULLs and forward slashes.
Depending on what shell you're using you could do:
Also, you should always, always quote your variables unless you want them to start splitting when they end up with spaces in them. No reason not to.
Hi,
Can anyone please help me: i'm trying to read a file with directory-names , then go to that directory and read another (output) file to perform some tasks per line (second read line in the part of script below).
The problem is that after the nested while loop has finished, the first while... (7 Replies)
HELLO all :),
I have been trying to use a simple while loop to read a file " templist", line by line and perform an action. See the code below. The reason for not using a while read line loop is the for the use of the if condition that wouldn't work. I would appreciate some ideas as this has... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
How can we use read line using the index value of a FOR loop?
eg:
pt_mstr,pt_status,8
pt_mstr,pt_buyer,8
pt_mstr,pt_sfty_stk,8
pt_mstr,pt_ord_pol,3
pt_mstr,pt_capacity,8
pt_mstr,pt_plan_ord,3
pt_mstr,pt_ord_mult,8
From this file i want to read the line2, 3 and 4 only using a FOR... (3 Replies)
Hi I'm writing a bash script which will read an input file and look for occurrences of the current user ($USER) executing the script. When i find the occurrence of the username I take that line and append it to a file with a line number and bracket display next to line.
The input file has been... (12 Replies)
Hi
I am using while loop, below, to read lines from a very large file, around 400,000 rows. The script works fine until around line 300k but then starts giving incorrect result.
I have tried running the script with a smaller data set and it works fine. I made sure to include the line where... (2 Replies)
I have written a script to read the file line by line.
It is reading and printing the lines.
But it is coming out of loop before reading last line.
So I am not able to print last line.
How do I solve it. (6 Replies)
Hi
As a newbe in scripting, i struggle hard with my first script.
What i want to do is, bringing data of two files together.
file1:
....
05/14/12-04:00:00 41253 4259 5135 5604 5812 5372
05/14/12-04:10:00 53408 5501 6592 7402 7354 6639
05/14/12-04:20:00 58748 6037 7292 8223... (13 Replies)
I'm looking for some help in figuring why my little bit of code will not process any entries other then the first one in my list.
while read line ;do
hostname=${line//\"}
a=`ssh user@$hostname uptime;echo $?`
if ];then
dt=`date`
touch... (6 Replies)
Based on text file:
PATH:/media/hdd/Media/Video/title1 FILE:/media/cache/281662-14.jpg
PATH:/media/hdd/Media/Video/title2 FILE:/media/cache/281662-15.jpg
PATH:/media/hdd/Media/Video/title3 FILE:/media/cache/281662-16.jpg
PATH:/media/hdd/Media/Video/title4 FILE:/media/cache/281662-17.jpg... (12 Replies)