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# 1  
Old 07-30-2008
reading from file in ksh
hi,

it seems i can read using

Code:
cat file | while read line

but when i tried reading using

Code:
while read line < myfile

then the last line kept on being returned

why?

thanks
# 2  
Old 07-30-2008
Wrong syntax. Try something like the following:
Code:
while read line 
do
     # process the line
      ............................
done < myfile

# 3  
Old 07-30-2008
thanks
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