From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How does one read a file line by line in an rc script?
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 22:45:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F376FA6C-F99B-4238-A024-607647E8AB9D@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A2B4894-94A0-430A-9A17-84A37F1B4BD6@mapinternet.com>
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try
cat $1 | while(line=`{read}){
echo $line
}
no doubt you cam do without the cat but i am unsure off hand where to put the redirect in and i am not on plan9 just now.
-Steve
> On 5 Jan 2019, at 10:34 pm, Mack Wallace <mackbw@mapinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Another, probably more stupid question - How does one read a text file line by line in an rc script.
>
> In bash this works:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> while read line
> do
> echo $line
> done < $1
>
> I’ve tried:
>
> #!/bin/rc
>
> while (line=`{read $1})
> {
> echo $line
> }
>
> Which produces the first line of the file in an infinite loop. I’ve tried the -m argument with no output.
>
>
> It’s probably simple, but just can’t seem to find the equivalent.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mack
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-05 22:34 Mack Wallace
2019-01-05 22:45 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2019-01-05 23:28 ` Mack Wallace
2019-01-05 23:46 ` Steve Simon
2019-01-06 0:33 ` Mack Wallace
2019-01-06 0:03 ` Anthony Martin
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