08-12-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelam_Magnus
Just assigns a wildcard to accept any input as the input file...
In your case it is waiting for 2 files.
Waiting for 2 files? What does that mean?
My experiments with ksh on HP-UX show that ** in this case is treated exactly like EOF. The shell will read input until the line with ** is reached. No wildcard expansion seems to be done. This is a really odd syntax though. Other shells might behave differently.
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line(1) User Commands line(1)
NAME
line - read one line
SYNOPSIS
line
DESCRIPTION
The line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns
an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal.
EXIT STATUS
Exit status is:
0 Successful completion
>0 End-of-file on input.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sh(1), read(2), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 line(1)