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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grep in a loop Post 67823 by criglerj on Monday 28th of March 2005 02:40:03 PM
Old 03-28-2005
With all the following, YM,aa,MV.

If I understand your problem correctly, you are trying to find all the log entries on a given date for a given user, then send an email to someone (probably yourself) to match all the transactions except Create and Reject.

You're asking specifically about putting the "grep" pipeline in a loop. This is not an especially big problem. Do you want to loop based on entering different user names? Different dates? Both? This simplest method is something like this (using /bin/sh):

Code:
while true; do
    read UserId
    read xxx
    grep [as you originally posted it]
done

(You probably want to put your prompts in as well --- this is just to show the general method.)

Then when you've run the program and for all the dates and userids, just hit control-C to break out of the loop.

More comments follow in another post.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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