Shell Programming and Scripting

I guess your script should work now.....or you are facing the same problem...

Hi Dhruva,

If u observe last but one mail of mine, i mentioned how peculiar my unix box is behaving.

anyhow Dhurva, thanks a lot.

Regards,
Ravi Kumar Garlapati

You need to have a carriage return after the last line. vi the file and press 'enter' at the end of last line and save. They retry your code and it should work.

Cheers,
Dinesh

I had the same problem.

All i did was add a blank line at the end of the file

echo >> file.txt

i tried the following but did not succeed

while true
do
{
(echo 1)>1.txt
sleep 1
(echo 0)>1.txt
}
done

try >> instead of >

hi Ravi Kumar Garlapati
i worked out ur problem
it works fine in bash shell with the code which you have posted
i have one more doubt in ur code

if i want to read some thing from user inside while loop what to do ie

while read line
do
echo $line
echo "enter ur name"
read name
echo $name
done <avi.txt

iam not able to read inside the while loop is there any solution

thanks
Avinash