Varibles not working in do loop...
Andrew Louie
louiea@gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 20:27:00 GMT 2007
On 4/2/07, Kevin Markle wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) expressed precisely :
> > Kevin Markle wrote:
> What does this mean please and or would you send me your copy that
> works fine?
> "$LOG" == > "". In these cases, the "hang" is 'cat' waiting for input
> from the command
> > line.
I think he means that in the line:
>UPDATES_NEEDED=`cat $LOG | grep "updates detected" | tail -1`
cat $LOG... will hang if $LOG == "" because "cat" is waiting for input.
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-Andrew Louie
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