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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!shutton
  3. From: shutton@fokker.union.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
  4. Subject: Re: Reading a line from a file in Bourne
  5. In-Reply-To: shutton@fokker.union.indiana.edu's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:29:20 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <SHUTTON.92Dec11223107@fokker.union.indiana.edu>
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  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:31:07 GMT
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  14.  
  15. I've received a lot of good advice, both through e-mail and followups.
  16. The bottom line (while I did receive lots of  innovative solutions) is
  17. to do something akin to the following:
  18.  
  19. #!/bin/sh
  20. cat myfile |
  21. while read LINE
  22. do
  23.  echo a full line: $LINE
  24. done
  25.  
  26. "read"  apparently has a  significant return value--major goof  on  my
  27. part for failing to check this.
  28.  
  29. -S
  30.