45.16 Standard Input to a for LoopAn obvious place to use a Bourne shell for loop ( 44.16 ) is to step through a list of arguments - from the command line or a variable. But combine the loop with backquotes ( 9.16 ) and cat ( 25.2 ) , and the loop will step through the words on standard input. Here's an example:
for x in `cat` do ...handle $x done Because this method splits the input into separate words, no matter how many words are on each input line, it can be more convenient than a while loop running the read command, as in article 9.20 . When you use this script interactively though, the loop won't start running until you've typed all of the input; using while read will run the loop after each line of input. - |
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