I use read often in scripts to filter the right part into a variable like:
$ print "abc cde efg" | read k l ; print "k=$k, l=$l"
k=, l=
This works on linux and unix versions I work with. On OSX 10.4 this
doesn't work. I found a workaround but would like to know
why the original line... (5 Replies)
Hi, I'm doing a script that reads lines from a file and then copy them to another file, if the user wants it.
But I'having problems to get the user selection because when I do the read to ask the user, the script reads the next line of the file.
The script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
# ... (2 Replies)
I've discovered a very annoying problem in sh:
echo -en "one\ntwo\nthree" | while read VALUE
do
echo "${VALUE}"
done This will print one and two, but not three. The last line is IGNORED because it lacks a newline. This makes it hard to use sh for things like CGI scripting; you have... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Can any one please help me with this. Am struggling hard to get a solution.
I am doing telnet through a C program and getting the stdout file descriptor of the remote machine to pipe.
read() function is getting data, But whenl it receives SOH character ie. ^A ( Start of heading = Console... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am just trying to read data from a file.
The command i tried worked well with AIX server. But in SunOS, it is not reading.
cat log.out |sed -n '4,4p'| read value;
+ sed -n 4,4p
+ cat log.out
+ read value
echo $value;
+ echo
This is the log of running the script.
... (13 Replies)
Dear all,
I have this archive: cat file.txt
archive test 02 sequence 03 02length 52
archive test 02 sequence 04 02length 52
archive test 02 sequence 05 02length 52
teste arquivo 06 sequencia 08 06 length 54
teste arquivo 06 sequencia 09 ... (8 Replies)
Hi everybody, I am new to shell script. Please help me with this problem.
I have a file test.txt with the content like this:
I have a shell script test.sh like this
#!/bin/sh
while read line
do
echo $line >> out.txt
done < test.txt
out.txt is expected to have the same content... (10 Replies)
Hi - I don't understand why the following script isn't working. I want to read the contents of a while loop into an array, but it looks like the array is destroyed once the while loop is finished. Can anybody help?
someFile:
PC_1 wf_test1 Test
PC_2 wf_test2 Test
PC_3 wf_test3 Test
Script:... (3 Replies)
I am trying to make a server and client, the client will choose between some options and the server will react accordingly.
After a some reads and writes that work the server needs to read from client an INT i use this:
read(newSd,&k,sizeof(int));But even if all the other times there was no... (1 Reply)