On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:48:42PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> for $fruit in `cat /usr/fruits.txt` ;
> do
> echo -n "Do you like $fruit"
> read ANS
> if [ -z $ANS ] ; then
> # NEED HELP WITH CODE HERE
> fi
> done
>
> how can I be able to have loop repeat itself at the same iteration when the
> "if -z" statement turns out to be ture??
>
> I know that continue can be used to do this, however from my understanding
> you need to tell it at which iteration you want to start at. Is there a
> dynamic way of doing this or something??
>
> thanks so much for any info you can give.
I assume fruits.txt is line separated? In that case, you want
cat /usr/fruits.txt | \
while read fruit ; do
echo -n "Do you like $fruit? "
unset ANS
while [ -z "$ANS" ] ; do
read ANS
done
# do something with answer
done
Jonathan
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