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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting PS3 select when wrong input given Post 302729131 by elixir_sinari on Friday 9th of November 2012 05:43:33 AM
Old 11-09-2012
I don't think this is possible with select.
With a construct such as:
Code:
select DIR in `cat mylist`  QUIT
do
.
.
.
done

changing the file mylist inside the loop will not work at all. The shell has already done command substitution for cat mylist and substituted the output of that command in place of `cat mylist`, before running the other commands in the loop. So, the argument list to select is a static one.
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DCSRDUMP(1)					       DICOM PS3 - Describe DICOM SR content					       DCSRDUMP(1)

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DESCRIPTION

       dcsrdump reads the named dicom structured report (SR) input file and describes the information contained.

OPTIONS

       The attribute values, description and verbose output go to standard error.

       The basic input switches are described in dcintro(1). Options specific to this program are:

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	      Display byte offset from file start and message start, in hexadecimal, and dump contents of the DICOM dataset while reading.

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