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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regarding reading lines into a new file Post 302574012 by Ananthdoss on Wednesday 16th of November 2011 09:04:06 AM
Old 11-16-2011
Regarding reading lines into a new file

Hi all,

I jut use a loop to read lines from the user and redirect it to a file.

Code:
         echo "Enter the line"
         while read -r LINE
         do
         echo $LINE >> FILE
               if [ "$LINE" = "^b" ];then
               break
               fi
         done

input
Code:
     app * check
     app1 \app\
     app2 \... /NEW -mk home

Expected output when i run cat the file after giving ^b which exists the while loop.
Code:
     app * check
     app1 \app\
     app2 \... /NEW -mk home

The output I get is the files and folders in the current working directory along with the input lines since there is "*" in the input line . Is there any way to avoid listing the files and folders in the current working directory and to copy only the input lines???




Thanks
Ananth

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