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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting file descriptor KSH Post 302522605 by LiorAmitai on Monday 16th of May 2011 03:11:21 AM
Old 05-16-2011
Tools file descriptor KSH

Hello,

How can i use file descriptor in a script to read 2 files at the same time and extract line 200 from file 1 and line 500 from file 2.

Thanks.
 

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line(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           line(1)

NAME
line - read one line SYNOPSIS
line DESCRIPTION
The line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is: 0 Successful completion >0 End-of-file on input. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sh(1), read(2), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 line(1)
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