10-07-2001
I'll use sed and awk when I get more familiar with them, I think grep will work for what I need to do, here's my script so far, with some of the "various things" I want the loop to do included as comments. Your help has made a drastic improvement already, what will the next step be...
#!/bin/ksh
# Usage: chkinit (inittab file)
# This creates a temp file to work with,using all lines
# in the inittab that do not begin with # (assumes the argument is an
# inittab file) and all lines that are not blank
grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" $1 > /tmp/mytest.$$
# this will loop through each line in the tmp file
while read iline
do
# case (can I use case here... if so how?)
# I would like to: * ensure that all lines contain 4 fields
# * make sure the id field has from 1 to 4 chars
# * make sure that the run levels are valid for
the process indicated
done < /tmp/mytest.$$
rm -f /tmp/mytest.$$
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