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Subject: [9fans] rc - how to...
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:03:12 +0100
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Hi,

I like rc's language very much, but, I cannot work out how to
read a series of words from a slow running program, for example:

for ( file in `{du /} )
    echo $file(1)

This runs the du and then processes the output of it.
I want to read du's output a line at a time so I get dataflow
and see the output of each line as they are processed.

I would use the read(1) command in Bourne shell but
cannot see an equivalent in rc.

Anyone help?

Thanks,

-Steve