Hi there,

Does anyone know how to read a file one line at a time in bourne shell?

I usually program in ksh, and I use "read -u3 $var" where the three is a
file discriptor opened using "exec".  The bourne version of read does not
support this and I can't find a suitable replacement.

any ideas?

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Kervin Pierre, CCNA

If a computer crashes in the forest and no one is there to
reboot it, does it still save .bak files?
-- Anon., Tech Wisdom #4


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