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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (Physically Pffft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Shell script help needed
Keywords: Suspend a foreach() loop?
Message-ID: <1872@loral.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 17:19:42 GMT
Organization: At the Remote Controls
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Our application has it's source code in 9 directories, and I find that
often I need to make similar changes in all 9 directories.  Manually
cd'ing into each directory is error prone, some are skipped and others
are entered more than once.  I'd like to write a shell script to automate
this that would act as follows:

1.  Enter all the directory names into a file (only need to do once)
2.  Invoke the script, it reads the first directory from the file and
    cd's into it.  It then suspends itself.
3.  I do what I need to.
4.  I enter 'next' or something to wake up the script, it reads the next
    directory from the file and cd's into it.  Steps 2-4 are done for
    all directories.

My problem is I don't know how to suspend a shell script like this, and then
have it continue where it left off.  My only idea is to create a new shell
('/bin/sh'), but I think this would be slower than snail snot.  Anyone
have any ideas?  Thanks.

							Jim

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Jim Harkins		jlh@loral.cts.com
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego