The main shell forks off a copy of itself to run while read independently of the echo so they can both run while connected by a pipe. The copy, or "sub-shell", runs successfully, setting all your variables and such as you please, until the pipe runs out of information and returns EOF. Then the loop quits.
Then the subshell dies. Control is returned to the main shell, which remains unchanged. You set all your variables in the subshell, not the main one.
In short: It's the pipe that does it. Your shell and everything behind the pipe are different processes and don't share variables.
Pipes are overkill if you have substring operators anyway. This way of getting a single character ought to work identically in bash and ksh:
Hi,
I have file abc.txt which has keys and emails addresses
abc.txt
emailkey1:sam@abc.com
emailkey1:tom@abc.com
emailkey2:rqw@abc.com
emailkey2:tut@abc.com
I have a shell script where i pass key as the parameter and i want all the email addresses within that key concatenated by a comma... (21 Replies)
I have a set of variables:
f1="./someFolder"
.
.
f10="./someOtherFolder"
And I'm trying to use the following loop
for (( i = 0; i <= 10; i++ ))
do
temp=f$i
done
I'm trying the get the values from my set of variable to make directories, but I can't seem the get those value... (3 Replies)
- I m retreving values from database and wish to use those values later in my shell script. I m placing these values in an array da_data but outside loop array is empty.Problem is its treating array as local inside loop hence array is empty outside loop.
Plz go through the script and suggest how... (1 Reply)
I need to do something like this:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
arr=$(awk 'NR="$i" { print $2 }' file_with_5_records)
done
That is, parse a file and assign values to an array in an ascending order relative to the number of record in the file that is being processed on each loop.
Is my... (2 Replies)
I'm a programming noob. I'm trying to run a memory intensive process for many files. But when I use the following script, it runs fine for the first 5-7 files, then runs out of memory. Monitoring the output files, it's clear the processes are going on in parallel. Once 5-7 of the files are being... (18 Replies)
Hi All
I am trying to fetch the size of three files into three separate variables within a for loop and am doing something like this:
for i in ATT1 ATT2 ATT3
do
size_$i=`ls -ltr $i | awk '{print $5}'`
echo ${size_$i}
done
but am getting the below error:
ksh: size_ATT1=522: not... (3 Replies)
array=( 8 5 6 2 3 4 7 1 9 0 )
for i in "${array}"
do
echo $i
done
# i need the output like this by swapping of array values
0
9
1
7
4
3
2
6
5
8 (7 Replies)
I have a headerless array of 1000 columns x 100000 rows. The array only contains 4 values; 0/0, 0/1, 1/1, ./.
Here I am showing the 1st 3 rows and columns of the input array
0/0 0/0 1/1
0/1 0/1 0/1
0/0 ./. 0/0
0/0 0/0 0/0
I would like to convert the values in... (9 Replies)
Hello!
I'm making an English to Morse Code translator and I was able to mostly get it all working by looking through older posts here; however, I have one small problem.
When I run it it's just printing spaces for where the characters should be. It runs the right amount of times, and if I try... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arcoleman10
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)