[CentOS] Bash Question
JohnS
jses27 at gmail.comThu Apr 8 16:36:10 UTC 2010
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On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:57 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hey guys, > messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post, > > > #!/bin/bash > > mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo > exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo > > while true > do > while read -t 5 data <&42 > do > echo "data is ($data)" > done > echo "read again" > done > > > > What happens to this to invalidate the initial 'true' condition, it only runs > for a short while? --- No exit 0 status for sucess. Your while syntax is diff compared to what should be used like "while; true". It's only repetitive on exit 0 status. John
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