Why not just do the whole thing in awk? When I have more time, maybe
later tonight, I can write up an example script.
E
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "tack" == tack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> tack> what's the desired output? tack
>
>
> >From the code in the loop in OP
>
> echo "column 1 is $col1 and column 2 is $col2"
>
> should output
>
> column 1 is 22 and column 2 is ssh
> column 1 is 25 and column 2 is smtp
> column 1 is 80 and column 2 is http
>
> But I would also like to handle the case where the second
> column is left empty.
>
> I think I can handle the column 1/2 thing with awk. It looks like the
> problem is in the variable 'lines'.
>
> JDH
>
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