From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 19:34: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164EC37B417 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3I2Y2RE070449; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:34:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3I2Y1LP070176; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:34:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:34:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Michael E Mercer Cc: Taylor Dondich , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More of a scripting question I guess. Message-ID: <20020418023400.GJ72244@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000901c1e678$bc14fa80$6600a8c0@penguin> <20020418015926.GI72244@dan.emsphone.com> <3CBE2F51.41E19E8A@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CBE2F51.41E19E8A@nc.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Apr 17), Michael E Mercer said: > another way to do it is this with the same outcome: > > while read address ; do > somecommand $address > done < file.txt But that puts the input file at the end of the command, which makes it harder to see where the input is coming from, especially if you have a lot of stuff in your loop. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message