OT - BASH question?

[Peter Volsted]

hi

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> Does anyone know of a GOOD bash list? If yes - I'll go there.
> 
> The following works:
>    while read line; do
>    ...
>    ...
>    done < somefile
>    ...
>    ...
> 
> How would one go about doing something similar replacing the file 
> redirection with the output of a command? Before you say pipe it, that 
> doesn't work because the pipe starts a subprocess and anything done 
> inside the while loop is lost to the rest of the original process.
> 
> i.e.
>    ps -eo "%p" | while read line; do
>    ... # anything done here is
>    ... # lost to the original process
>    done
>    ... # Code here can't use anything
>    ... # done inside the while loop
> 
> Suggestions?
> 

ps -eo "%p" | awk ' { print $1 > "proctest" }'


-- 
good luck

     peter

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