Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       I'm stumped on another simple BASH problem. How do I read the last line 
> of a
> file with a while loop without requiring a blank line at the end of the file?
> Simple example I'm stuck on:
>
> { while read alias url; do
>       echo -e "${alias}\t${url}"
> done } < ~/linux/scripts/config/repos

Remove the curly brackets and everything runs fine on my system.


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Sandy

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