I have the following in one of my scripts:

su - dcmbox -c "dcsca list" > /tmp/coa1.txt

while read line;
do
echo "${line}" | awk '{ print $1 }' | egrep -v "ID|\-";
done < /tmp/coa1.txt > /tmp/coa2.txt

cat /tmp/coa2.txt

while read line
do
/root/robert/compare_one_cos_lab_mc1_mc2.sh $line
done < /tmp/coa2.txt

exit

The first while-do-done loop works as expected, but the second loop runs only once, even though there are numerous lines in /tmp/coa2.txt. I suspect the script I'm calling from that loop is changing the end of file indication; how do I prevent it from doing that?

Thanks in advance...

Each time this line executes, it overwrites coa2.txt, so you end up with only the last line. What you want to do is append to that file, not overwrite it. Change it to this:

Thanks. However as I mentioned the first loop works fine, and /tmp/coa2.txt has numerous lines in it. Anyway, I made the change you suggested but it did not fix the problem.
The problem I'm having is with the second loop, not the first.