On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Cathey, Jim wrote:
> A shell script?
>
> while :; do
> read LINE
> echo `date`: $LINE
> done <ttydev >logfile
Better:
while read -r; do
echo "$(date): $REPLY"
done <ttydev >logfile
If you use `read -r` you get the raw line, it's sensible to exit the loop
on end of input, and I don't understand why anybody still uses backticks
for command line sub-shells!
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