Answer by mikeserv for while read line in shell script - how to stop the loop?
line=\ ; PS4='${#line}: + ' while read line <&$((${#line}?0:3)) do : "$line" done <<msg 3</dev/null one nice thing about allowing shell expansions to self test is that the shell...
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while read line && [ "$line" != "quit" ]; do # ... Or to stop at an empty line: while read line && [ "$line" != "" ]; do # ... or while read line && [ -n "$line" ]; do # ... On...
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Here's how you'd have the while-loop stop on a zero-length value of line: #!/usr/bin/bash while read line do if [[ -z $line ]] then exit fi wget -x "http://someurl.com/${line}.pdf" done < inputfile...
View Articlewhile read line in shell script - how to stop the loop?
I read a tutorial here that I can use while read line do wget -x "http://someurl.com/${line}.pdf" -o ${line}.pdf done < inputfile However this script keeps running with $line not containing any...
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