[KLUG Members] To shell or not to shell...

[goose@knbpower.com]

>I'm trying to figure out how I can process this export file
>one line at a time in a shell script, but I'm starting to
>think I can't. I'm thinking I need to write a little C
>program to read each line into an array, walk through it
>as necessary, and write out to the text files. I'd rather
>do it with bash, but am failing to find how. Everything I
>read about I/O with shell scripts is just redirection.
>Nthing on how to open a file for reading line by line.

   This just might help you.... I ls -al a directory into a temp file, then
read it back to extract filenames to transmit via email. Hopes this helps...

#!/bin/bash

while read temp; do
        echo -n "sending $temp to ec.up.com "
        cat $temp | mail -s **EDI** UPTEDI@ec.up.com
        echo "Done"
        mv $temp sent
        let num=num+1
        sleep 5
done < /tmp/ra96e

   The read command will pickup the line from the file /tmp/ra96e one line
at a time and continues until it reaches the eof.

   Goose

P.S. Sorry this took so long to reply to... I'm WAY behind on emails!!!!



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