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How to do a script which read line by line /passwd using while

Hi everyone, I have to do several scripts and I have no idea of how to do this one: Make a script that read line by line the passwd file and prints in console.
Hope you understand couse my english is so bad as you can see.
Our teacher told us something like this:

#!/bin/bash

while read line do

echo $linea

done < dispositive

exit

As this is a homework, I'll just say this:

1. give it a try based on what you've been taught; you wouldn't be asked to do this if you hadn't covered the relevant info in class/your books
Show us what you've done
2. read/bookmark these
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
3. see the LQ Rules re homework http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/rules.html

see.. i read a lot from the internet but i can´t do this script. I´ve done 17 scripts already, but can´t make thisone work.. im not trying someone to do my homework. It´s just an exercise

So what seems to be the problem?
Based on what you have so far it seems to already be solved??

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Your example from your teacher is almost there....

Quote:

Originally Posted by giantjavi (Post 3967718)

but can´t make thisone work..

If you posted your script and explained how it doesn't work (does not do what is wanted, gives error messages ...) then we would help.

#!/bin/bash

AR=/home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd

exec 3<&0
exec 0<$AR
while read line
do
echo $line

done
exec 0<&3

I did this, what do you think now? how can i do that it prints line by line when the operator press the enter button?

Quote:

Originally Posted by giantjavi (Post 3967973)

The fact that the script is waiting for user input shows that the exec 0<$AR command has not worked to redirect input from /home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd.

There's no need for the redirects. Most simply you could change the script to

Code:

#!/bin/bash



while read line

do

    echo $line

done < /home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd

I'll post again about why the execs are not working as intended.

EDIT: Maybe I will not post about why the execs are not working as intended because they are OK (for tidiness you could close 3 after the last line of the script). Are you sure that /home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd exists? What happens if you change AR=/home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd to AR=/etc/passwd?

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin (Post 3967979)

Code:

#!/bin/bash



while read line

do

    echo $line

done < /home/practicas/tp2/nuevo/home/practicas/tp1/passwd

Yes, it does exist because i created it.. copying and thinks like redirecting from other files.. those were the firsts excercises

ok ... so what doe it not do or error message does it give when you run it?