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voidmain:
Well, it's tough to tell without knowing the bigger picture of what you are working on. If it works for you go for it. I rarely use the "read" command in a shell script though. I usually use "cut" and other utilities, even though read may be more appropriate in this example. But like I mentioned. For parsing text files I find Perl to be *very* easy for this kind of stuff. Don't know if that is an option for you but Perl really makes this a no brainer.

caveman_piet:
TX.

Yes - perl was an option - should have started
there.

But I started with this - and then got stuck
on solving the problem via bash (ksh actually).

In fact - the output gets fed to a perl script
but I want to keep that as generic as possible.

TX.

PS. How to edit a post? can it be done after I
sent it?

voidmain:
Yes you can edit your post after you post it by clicking on the little icon above your post that looks like a little pencil/paper ICON.

I also love the Korn shell. Bash is very much like Korn shell but it can not do math operations in a while loop like Korn shell can:


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caveman_piet:
yep - I found that out the hard way.

So now I when I write scripts I need to
comment out some code until I can get to
the RS6000 box to test it.

Tx for all the help.

It's 03h40 where I am - so off to bed
and get ready to be at the client by 07h00.


[ October 20, 2002: Message edited by: caveman ]
just test da edit  :D   !

And finding myself hitting the ESC k and vi
edit commands in bash. Only to find it really screws with my bash command line.

g'night

[ October 20, 2002: Message edited by: caveman ]

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by caveman:
yep - I found that out the hard way.

So now I when I write scripts I need to
comment out some code until I can get to
the RS6000 box to test it.

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Why is that? You know you can get Korn shell for your Linux box right? I used to admin a cluster of RS/6000s (990s, 590s, 340s, M20s, and Xterminals) several years ago. I really liked those boxen. And I used a lot of Linux as cheap X clients into the cluster.

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