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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Condition to test if a host can be pinged Post 302622201 by Corona688 on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 05:32:30 PM
Old 04-11-2012
You don't have to run cut hundreds of times in backticks. Use the read command once.

Code:
while read FIELD1 FIELD2 FIELD3 FIELD4
do
        echo "Field 1 is "$FIELD1"
done < inputfile

'host' might be outputting to stderr, try 2>&1
 

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MKERRLST(1)						      General Commands Manual						       MKERRLST(1)

NAME
mkerrlst - create system error file SYNOPSIS
mkerrlst [ -i inputfile ] [ -o outputfile ] DESCRIPTION
Mkerrlst(1) creates error message files in the format described by syserrlst(5). With no arguments mkerrlst creates the file /etc/syserrlst from the internal array sys_errlist. Give just the -o option mkerrlst will create the file outputfile from the internal array sys_errlist. Given just the -i option mkerrlst will create the file /etc/syserrlst from the input file inputfile. Given both -i and -o options mkerrlst will create the error message file outputfile from the strings contained in inputfile. NOTE: error messages are numbered from 0. If the error 0 does not have a message associated with it the first string in inputfile must still be present. RETURN VALUE
mkerrlst exits with status of 0 if no errors are encountered. If errors do occur an error message is printed on stderr and the exit status is 1. ERRORS
mkerrlst(1) can encounter any of the errors for the open(2), lseek(2), read(2), or write(2) system calls. SEE ALSO
syserrlst(3) syserrlst(5) HISTORY
mkerrlst(1), first appeared in 2.11BSD. BUGS
Error messages can be a maximum of 80 characters. 3rd Berkeley Distribution March 14, 1996 MKERRLST(1)
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