gripes about /bin/sh AND /bin/csh
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Wed Jun 18 02:01:00 AEST 1986
In article <44 at houligan.UUCP> dave at smaug.UUCP (Dave Cornutt) writes:
-What Phil wants (me too) is some capability to open a file in a sh/csh
-script and read a line at a time into a variable, like this:
- open <some-file> xyz
- while ( ! eof(xyz) )
- read xyz $line_from_file
- <...do stuff with data...>
- end
- close xyz
-Neither sh nor has any such capability.
while line_from_file=`line`
do ... do stuff with $line_from_file ...
done < some-file
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