OT: shell scripting problem

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:14, linux.whiz at gmail.com wrote:
> On 5/17/05, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
>
> <kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com> wrote:
> > You get this behavior because the internal field separator by default
> > recognizes spaces, tebs, etc as field separators.
> >
> > Try this instead (where names.lst is your file of names):
> >
> > exec < ./names.lst
> > while read line
> > do
> >         myscript.sh $line
> > done
>
> As soon as I issue the exec < ./names.lst command, my shell exits.  My
> understanding is that exec takes over the PID of the current process,
> so when you try to exec a text file it makes sense that the process
> would exit.
>
> Other ideas?
>
> LW

The exec thing usually works for me. Maybe you already have stdin tied up???

Here's a bit of a hokey fix but it should work.


1) make your names.lst file look like this with a dash (-) as a replacement for any spaces
John-A-Smith
Mary-P-James
Sally-R-Jones
Fred-Q-Davis

then do this in your script:



for i in `cat names.lst`; do
	username=`echo $i | sed "s/-/ /g"`
	myscript.sh $username
done
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