Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys,

I am VERY new to linux scripting and was wondering if you could help me with the following:

essentially the use case is the following...a service crashes and a script must be executed to rerun 3000 entries one at a time....your options are to do each of those manually, 1 at a time
or to write some type of loop to go through them
the question is really to read values from the file, send each line to the screen (to show which one you're on), and then send it to the script
I would like to write a loop script for this but am having some issues with my knowledge. I know this may be basic for some of you, but we all gotta start somewhere and im trying to learn.

Hello,

if you can put some input code and as well output code too, it will be helpful for us to fulfil this requirement.



Thanks,
R. Singh

You could do something like:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

while read line
do
        printf "%s\n" "\"$line\"" | tee -a output.txt | tee /dev/tty | xargs ./yourscript.ksh

done < input.txt

Why not

Code:

while read line
  do
    printf "%s\n" $line 
    /PATH/servicescript "$line"
  done < file

I would love to give more info, but that is all that I was given. Im trying my best to learn this amazing stuff myself. Dont really have the resources or people to help teach me from the bottom up. Used to be in the military and am trying to bulldoze my way back into the tech field. I have a good deal of the basics, so i need to move on to intermeidiate and advanced. Again thank you for your help!

They have not given you the information you need to do your job. Or perhaps they expect you to explore and see what files are there and figure out what they want.

I agree, But with my limited knowledge, i need to at least have a decent starting point imo. Im learning slowly but surely and i flipped my computer and put ubuntu on it and vboxed windows rather than the set i had which was flipped. This I think will help force me to learn a little more a little quicker