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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling an interactive perl script from within a while-read loop Post 302857849 by prafulnama on Friday 27th of September 2013 11:52:35 AM
Old 09-27-2013
Calling an interactive perl script from within a while-read loop

Hi,

I have a perl script that prompts for a user to enter a password before doing what it does. This works well if I call it directly from a bash script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
/path/to/perl/script $arg1 $arg2

But, when I try to enclose this within a while read loop, the perl script is called but if I enter an incorrect password, I do not get prompted again and the loop moves on to the next run.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
while read line 
arg1=`echo $line | sed 'something'`
arg2=`echo $line | sed 'something else'`
/path/to/perl/script $arg1 $arg2 < /dev/tty
done < /path/to/file

Any suggestions on how can I fix this problem? I would like to be prompted and allowed to enter the password as many times as the perl script allows me to before moving on.

Thanks!

Last edited by prafulnama; 09-27-2013 at 01:26 PM..
 

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