Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Martin McCormick wrote:
> "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.

I don't know how to fix the awk problem, but instead of:

zlength=`wc -l $zonename|awk '{print $1}'`

you could try:

zlength='wc -l $zonename|(read len fname; echo $len;)'

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