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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: gripes about /bin/sh AND /bin/csh
Message-ID: <1420@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 12:01:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1420
Posted: Tue Jun 17 12:01:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 09:10:42 EDT
References: <44@houligan.UUCP> <2027@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <44@houligan.UUCP> dave@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