nested read

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am hoping someone can help me with this one.

I am writing a ksh script on Solaris. I want to read in host names and some other info from a file, do an "rsh host 'shutdown'" (or any uname for now until I get it working), and then be given some options. The problem is I am using while read LINE do with a nested read like this:

cat hosts.lst | while read LINE
do
   set ${LINE}
   rsh ${1} 'uname -a'
   DONE=false
   while [[ ${DONE} = false ]]
   do
      echo "[C]heck, [K]ill, [G]o?"
      read ANSWER
      ANSWER=`echo ${ANSWER} | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`
      echo "ANSWER is ${ANSWER}"
      case ${ANSWER} in
         C ) check_running_processes;;
         K ) kill_running_processes;;
         G ) DONE=true;; #go to next priority
       esac
   done

This isn't the entire script just the section I am having problems with. The problem I cannot get around is when I try to "read ANSWER", $ANSWER is getting the value of $LINE for that iteration. I understand why this is happening but cannot figure out how to get around it.

I have tried putting the read in (), in a separate subroutine, unsetting $LINE, setting $LINE to something else.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Tony

2

read ANSWER < /dev/tty

3

Thanks! don't know why that didn't occur to me. Works great.