SUMMARY & THANKS Re: How to read sequentially from a file in SH
Augustine Cano
afc at shibaya.lonestar.org
Tue May 14 04:33:12 AEST 1991
Many thanks to all who responded to my question, both by e-mail and follow-ups.
There were a few posted follow-ups, so I won't re-hash those. Some e-mail
respondents indicated that some versions of sh do in fact work as ksh does.
ie:
while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
echo $VAR1 $VAR2
done
However, what did work even with my sh was the following:
while read VAR1 VAR2; do
echo $VAR1 $VAR2
done < $FILENAME
Also, Hans Mulder (hansm at cs.kun.nl) says that on SunOS 4.1.1 this works:
exec 3< $FILENAME
while read VAR1 VAR2; do
echo $VAR1 $VAR2
done <&3
Thanks again to all who responded.
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