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hi

i need a ksh to read file and depending on value do something. can anyone help?


thanks

may i know what values do you have in the file you wish to read,Please also tell what you want to execute in responce.

ok

there is a parameter file which has values

A
B

so while reading parm file based on values execute script

for example,

if A, should execute a.sh script
if B,should execute b.sh script

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Here this is what I have written so far

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cat /home/param.dat| while read line
do
if [$line -eq "A"] ;
then ./A .ksh
else
if [$line -eq "B"] ;
then
./B.sh
fi
fi
done

It does not work, it gives A not found error and A not found error

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read line
do
if [[ "$line" = "A" ]]
then
. /A.sh
elif [[ "$line" = "B" ]]
then
. /B.sh
fi
done < /home/param.dat