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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unable to read user input inside a loop Post 303004556 by Yoda on Wednesday 4th of October 2017 11:29:24 AM
Old 10-04-2017
Can you please give me an example for this approach ?
Code:
CWD=$(pwd)
find data/ -type f \! -name test.tar | $AWK -F/ '{print $NF}' > ${CWD}/out.txt

while read entry
do
        echo "FILE_CURRENT_DIR:"$entry
        read -p 'Where do you want to copy $entry to? Please enter the complete directory location: ' -u 3 cppath
        echo "cp -R $entry $cppath/"
done 3<&0 < ${CWD}/out.txt

Quote:
Originally Posted by mohtashims
Also, if i use your code how can i include wow.tar along with test.tar ?
Code:
if [[ "$file" =~ "test.tar" ]] || [[ "$file" =~ "wow.tar" ]]
then
        continue
fi

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mohtashims
 

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OPTIONS

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ARGUMENTS

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