X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44D36158.7070803@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:01:44 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh breaks while loop References: <200608041401.k74E104c020250@mail.prospeed.net> In-Reply-To: <200608041401.k74E104c020250@mail.prospeed.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com CB wrote: > If file hostlist contains: > hosta > hostb > hostc > > then execute this shell script: > while read host > do > ssh $host ls -al .profile > done < hostlist > > the while loop executes one time and quits. > > But, > while read host > do > echo $host > done < hostlist > > executes 3 times. > > Am I missing something or is this a bug? This isn't Cygwin-specific so it's off-topic for this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/