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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with while read loop Post 302659351 by jdwyer on Wednesday 20th of June 2012 06:38:15 PM
Old 06-20-2012
Help with while read loop
Hey all,

Tried searching the forums but my search-fu may not be strong today; please feel free to redirect me if I have simply missed a post that would be helpful!

Trying to create a while loop that reads a list of configuration files, checks for a line that starts with "SOME_CMD" and ends with ".ext", and then if it does have that, echoes back the name of the configuration file.

Quote:
ls -1 *.cfg | while read cfg
do
egrep '^SOME_CMD=/usr/path/file.ext$' ${cfg} > /dev/null
echo $?
if [[ $? == 0 ]]
then
echo ${cfg}
else if [[ $? == 1 ]]
exit 0
fi
done
When I try to input this on the command line, I receive this message:
ksh: syntax error: `fi' unexpected

(We're using the old ksh on Solaris, not the 93. Not fully sure that makes a difference, but it might.)

While I'm pretty sure that I'm missing something small, I'm new enough to Unix and while loops that I can't see it myself. A coworker has looked over it and we're both unsure what I missed. I've even tried to google this with little luck.

Please, could you point out what I might have forgotten/missed?
 

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