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Old 02-03-2009
any keywork to indicate the end of file in UNIX scripting

while(end of file)
{



}

How to indicate end of file here in the script..
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Old 02-03-2009
What do you want to do? If you want to follow a file, I'd suggest a look at tail -f. If you want to do something until the end of file, the read function of your shell should take care of that automatically
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