RE: Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

One small change is required, I changed cat.file to...

1 4
2
3

If you want it to read the while line instead of breaking 1 and 4 into two reads you need to reassign the IFS

> IFS=3D
> for i in $(cat cat.file);do
> echo $i
> done

1 4
2
3=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lange [mailto:klange_at_ppoone.com]=20 Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:51 PM
To: Post, Ethan; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

Try

echo "1\n2\n3" > cat.file

for i in `cat cat.file`
do

   case ${i} in

1. X=3DIN ;; esac done

-----Original Message-----
From: Post, Ethan [mailto:Ethan.Post_at_ps.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:42 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

On Sun I get...

IN
IN

On AIX I get...

IN
IN

On webhost (?LINUX? I suppose) I get...

IN
OUT Arhhhhhhhhgggg!!!!!

#!/bin/ksh

X=3D3DOUT for i in 1 2 3
do

   case ${i} in

1. X=3D3DIN ;; esac done

echo ${X}

X=3D3DOUT echo "1\n2\n3" > cat.file

cat cat.file | while read i
do

   case ${i} in

1. X=3D3DIN ;; esac done

echo ${X}

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