12-29-2003
Cat and read command
Here's what the shell (korn) script is doing:
1. Prompt for input
2. Read a file using the cat and the while read command.
3. Get a field on the record and hold that value in a variable.
4. Within the process, I then need to prompt the user again to ask them if they are sure they want to make a change.
PROBLEM - When I do the second read to prompt user, the value in the read varaible is the record from the file.
CODE:
typeset -u DESC
typeset -u RESPONSE
echo "Enter new type description:\c"
read DESC
cat filename | while read rec
do
type=`echo "$rec" | cut -c1-2`
if [ "$type" = "01" ]
then
#== Change the description ==#
while true
do
echo "Are you sure you want to change the description (Y/N) :\c"
read RESPONSE
if [ $RESPONSE != "Y" ] && [ $RESPONSE != "N" ]
then
echo "\nInvalid response, enter a Y or N \c"
continue
else
break
fi
done
if [ "$RESPONSE" = "Y" ]
then
echo "$type,$DESC" >> new_file
else
echo "$rec" >> new_file
fi
else #== Not an 01==#
echo "$rec" >> new_file
fi
done
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