Shell Programming and Scripting

Methyl,
Well, after I took out the quotes, it works fine. Here is the working script. Yes, it is from the Bell Labs version. For some reason when those quotes were in there, it screwed everything up. Thanks for your help!.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
for nic in `cat nic.txt`
do
	for dest in `cat dest.txt`
	do
		ping -c2 -I $nic  $dest
	done
done

Glad it worked out.

If you have future questions, please post what Operating System and version you are running and what Shell you have.

I'm a bit mystified how you managed to have what appears to be a Bourne Shell on this O/S. Also fascinated how you got into this O/S.

This thread has been a bit like getting a post from Kernighan or Ritchie (RIP) because so few people know about the O/S.

Though I choke to say this on www.unix.com a tad of the technology advancement turned up in Windows NT.

I actually thought it was a flavor of Unix but just read a little about it and it does seem different. It's running on an nCUBE box. I tried to PM you the back story but I don't have enough posts.

Please don't PM me.

Unix developed in many directions but those which were difficult to use or had obscure or illogical syntax died. Plan 9 was one of them.

Imho. If you have low-level code expertise the most useful problem to work on is the file size limits in versions of tar and umpteen other unix commands in light of modern tetrabyte filesystems.