On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > Before I try re-inventing the wheel I would like to learn if a bash script > can do the following: > > 1. Read an address from a file. > 2. Execute a command referencing that file. > 3. Repeat 1 and 2 100 times > 2. Pause for 25 minutes. > 3. Repeat above until the address file end is reached.
Can you be a bit more explicit about steps 1 and 2? How many files are in play? How is the file (are the files) formatted? Is "address" a US Mail address? An e-mail address? A URL? The looping structure will depend a great deal on how many files are in play and what mechanism is used to grab the address(es). > > I believe that this can be scripted and it will require me to dig into my > bash books in detail looking for the appropriate builtin commands and > testing syntax. > > TIA, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
