Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" writes:
>Why not just use wc and sed?

	A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>
to use head -n -6.  There is, however, a problem with that last
suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD
system and FreeBSD's version of head does not support the -n flag.
Both Debian and FreeBSD, however, had the same problem with the loop.

	The function gets called with a bunch of values passed as
arguments instead of getting one value per run.

	When I use sh -x scriptname, the output doesn't look like a
normal loop.

	Thanks for any more ideas.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group