If I understand correctly, you want to read from the terminal every other time. You can do that with input redirection. Try:
This duplicates file descriptor 3 from stdin (terminal) fd 0. The second read uses this fd to get its input from. In the while block, stdin is redirected from your text file. Result:
I think I saw another post where someone said he an issue with a 'while within a while' but there were no solutions on it.
I have an input file of data columns separated by pipes "|" and I want to set each column to a variable and do something with it. This I can do.
When I get to a certain... (5 Replies)
Hi
I am using while loop, below, to read lines from a very large file, around 400,000 rows. The script works fine until around line 300k but then starts giving incorrect result.
I have tried running the script with a smaller data set and it works fine. I made sure to include the line where... (2 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
i need to read specific number of lines ( always serialized ; i.e from 10 to 20 or from 34 to 44 ) in a file , where the first line is found by grep 'ing a keyword.
example
file.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------
--header
this is the... (7 Replies)
Hi! I've got a problem with reading from serial port, when I run this code on Digi ConnectCore Wi-9c. But writing to serial port is Ok. By the way, when I'm running this code on "full" Linux it is working Ok - I can read and write to serial without mistakes. Where is a problem?
uname -a:... (3 Replies)
Hi,
This is the script and the error I am receiving
Can anyone please suggest ?
For the exmaple below assume we are using vg01
#!/bin/ksh
echo "##### Max Mount Count Fixer #####"
echo "Please insert Volume Group name to check"
read VG
lvs |grep $VG | awk {'print $1'} > /tmp/audit.log
... (2 Replies)
I'm using while read in a script to create a file but when I paste on the screen it echos out different than the data. The file is created correctly and the script does as it should. Just trying to resolve what's being show on the screen.
while read FILES
do
echo... (3 Replies)
Hi
I want to implement something like this:
if( keyword1 exists)
then
check if(keyword2 exists in the same line)
then replace keyword 2 with New_Keyword
else
Add New_Keyword at the end of line
end if
eg:
Check for Keyword JUNGLE and add/replace... (7 Replies)
Heyas
With my forum search term 'issue with leading dash' i found 2 closed threads which sadly didnt help me.
Also me was to eager to add the script, that i didnt properly test, and just now figured this issue.
So i have this code:
if ]
then while read line
do line="${line/-/'\-'}"... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have used a chunk of ksh script similar to this in many places without any issue:
while :
do
print;
read OPTION?"Enter a number (q to quit): "
expr ${OPTION} + 1 >/dev/null 2>&1
CHECKVAL=$?
if }" != ${OPTION} ]; then
... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have an ffmpeg bash script which is working nice and
I need to do the same for other sources.
To create new scripts and to deal with multiple bash files sounds not logical. It is a bit hard to manage for me..
I wondered if it was possible to make my input file as variable.
Then I... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: baris35
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
exec
exec(1) User Commands exec(1)NAME
exec, eval, source - shell built-in functions to execute other commands
SYNOPSIS
sh
exec [argument...]
eval [argument...]
csh
exec command
eval argument...
source [-h] name
ksh
*exec [arg...]
*eval [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new process. Input/output arguments may
appear and, if no other arguments are given, cause the shell input/output to be modified.
The arguments to the eval built-in are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
eval reads its arguments as input to the shell and executes the resulting command(s). This is usually used to execute commands generated as
the result of command or variable substitution.
source reads commands from name. source commands may be nested, but if they are nested too deeply the shell may run out of file descrip-
tors. An error in a sourced file at any level terminates all nested source commands.
-h Place commands from the file name on the history list without executing them.
ksh
With the exec built-in, if arg is given, the command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new
process. Input/output arguments may appear and affect the current process. If no arguments are given the effect of this command is to mod-
ify file descriptors as prescribed by the input/output redirection list. In this case, any file descriptor numbers greater than 2 that are
opened with this mechanism are closed when invoking another program.
The arguments to eval are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
EXIT STATUS
For ksh:
If command is not found, the exit status is 127. If command is found, but is not an executable utility, the exit status is 126. If a redi-
rection error occurs, the shell exits with a value in the range 1-125. Otherwise, exec returns a zero exit status.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Jul 2002 exec(1)