Re: Shell Scripting Question

[Mark Ferlatte]

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??

Use another loop:

for $fruit in `cat fruits`; do
        while [ -z $ANS ]; do
                echo -n "Do you like $fruit"
                read ANS
        done
done

M