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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 17:14, linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 5/17/05, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > <kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 |
