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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing specific and incrementing lines of text from file via variable Post 303029109 by Seth on Monday 21st of January 2019 12:39:33 PM
Old 01-21-2019
Code:
#! /bin/bash -f

# trap Ctl-c so program cannot be broken out of

trap '' 2

#run program

let count=1;
clear;


  while true;
    do
    echo "Don't touch me!";
      read -s input;
      if [ $input == "thepass" ]
       then
         clear
         echo "Welcome back, master"
         exit 
       else
         echo $input "<-----is not going to stop me!!";
         sleep 2;
          for((i=0;i<2;i++))
            do printf "\n";
            echo "Hands off!!";
            sleep 1;
            clear;
            sleep 1;
            done;
         for((x=0;x<50;x++));
         do
          awk "NR==$count" InsultList; #thank you nezabudka 
         
          sleep .025;
          done;
        clear;
        let count=count+1;
         
       fi
      done

# I'm a newbie to Bash so appreciate the input
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Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-21-2019 at 01:58 PM..
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