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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script hangs when reading from stdin Post 302494244 by Corona688 on Sunday 6th of February 2011 11:59:32 AM
Old 02-06-2011
I don't see any reason that should hang unless stdin does. What do you have on stdin?

For that matter -- what's your system? What's your shell? I'm sure you don't need to use grep in backticks to tell whether the string contains #END, using shell builtins will be hundreds of times faster.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

while read inputline
do
        [[ -z "${inputline}" ]] && continue
        [[ "${inputline}" == *#END* ]] && break

        echo $inputline
done < fdata

As for using getline to process input -- that also depends on your system and shell. It'd also be helpful to know what you wanted to use it for.
 

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