Standard input into a while loop

[meetramana]

Hi all,

How do I execute a while loop at the command prompt which takes stdin as the input.

I just did that 3 days ago. and completely forgot how I did that.

Breaking my head for 3 hours recalling how I did that still couldn't recall

Can you please suggest me on how to do it

Thanks

 

[SamBones]

Something like this?

#!/bin/ksh

somecommand | while read LINE
do
    # Process each line

    print ${LINE}
done

Hope this helps.

 

[meetramana]

Thankyou,

I was so mixed up with things and really didn't pay attention to a silly thing

Don't know what made me put
while read $LINE instead of
while read LINE

I noticed that when I was comparing what I wrote with what you suggested and for the first five minutes I really couldn't see the difference but finally noticed it.

Thankyou once again