Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all,

Can you please help me with this issue ?

Code:

while [ cond1 = cond2 ] ####infinite loop 
do 
  cat file1 |while  read var1 var2
  do 
    func1 $var1 $var2
  done 
  cat file2 | while read var11 var22
  do 
    func2 $var11 $var22
  done 
done

func1 is called till all the values are read from file1
and then it picks up the func2 ....
but before all the set of values from file2 are read
and func2 is executed control is passing to func1 loop
but i want the control to go to func1 only when all the set of values from file2 are read and func2 is called ....

Warm Regards

Does func2 call another script?
In that case you can run the script in the background and use the wait command to wait until the background job is complete.

BTW the use of cat is redundant, to loop through a file you can do something like:

Code:

while read var1 var2
do 
  func1 $var1 $var2
done < file1

Regards

the func2 doesnt call any other script
it is a function defined in the same script ..
I tried placing wait command but it behaving the same way ...

I tried to print values (var11 n var22) but it is printing only 1st set of values
picked func2 and control passes to first while loop...

If I simply echoed values without passing to func2 all the set of values are printed ...

please help me out ....