Re: script question

2007-03-23, 14:04(-07), Mike:
From a script, I want to print all the lines of a file up to a line
containing the word "END".
Something like:

# grep -avw -m 1 "END" -f bla.txt

or

# cat bla.txt | while read line; do
echo $line
if [ "$line" == "END" ]; then break; fi
done


...except a script that actually works. The second one above does not
work because
the "read line" corrupts the lines by removing whitespace. I don't
know why the
first one doesn't work.
[...]

sed /END/q < bla.txt

Remember a shell is a command line interpreter, pick up the
command most suited for the job. Using a while read loop is the
most alien way to do shell programming.

--
Stéphane
.

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