Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:57:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell script problem Message-ID: <50D6D56E.8000401@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121223104311.557f3752.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1356253535.76738.YahooMailClassic@web160101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20121223103434.def7cd9c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20121223104311.557f3752.freebsd@edvax.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 23/12/2012 09:43, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:34:34 +0100, Polytropon wrote: >> First, the lines with "read" have to be: >> >> cat /foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE1 >> >> cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read $LINE2 >> >> Reason: $LINE1 and $LINE2 will be evaluated here, they are "empty >> string", causing "read" to throw an error. > > Excuse me - I made a mistake! Of course those two lines > have to be: > > cat /foo/bar.txt | while read LINE1 > > and > > cat /foo/bar/foo/bar.txt | while read LINE2 > > The $ infront of the variable names have to be removed. > The variable _name_, not its content, has to be provided > to "read" as a parameter. > > The script so far: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 > do > cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 > do > if [ "$LINE1" = "$LINE2" ]; then > sw="1" > echo "Current value of sw is : " $sw > break > fi > done > echo "Value of sw is : " $sw > if [ "$sw" = "0" ]; then > echo "DO SOMETHING!" > fi > sw="0" > done > > Hmmm.... I'd just like to draw your attention to the comm(1) program, which lets you find lines common to two files, or only in one or other of a pair of inputs, very easily. The only slight gotcha is that the input files have to be sorted. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDW1XgACgkQ8Mjk52CukIznsgCfeNgcDOOs3P6s0I4CHwIDxa/a XLMAniDdI2fw/aOgII/FUIkiAa4olr4j =cMR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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