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From: Kevin Markle <kmarkle AT pbs DOT org>
Subject:  Varibles not working in do loop...
Date:  Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:38:11 -0400
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Hello,
I'm running this script and line 19 works when I create the variablea 
and type the command at a shell prompt. But when I try to run it from 
within the for loop it does not return a value and hangs?

Thanks!

Kevin M

$ more test_forloop.sh
#FILE=`cat 
"/cygdrive/e/wsus/group_1a_DEV/1group_1a_dev_clientlist.out"`
DIR="/cygdrive/e/wsus/group_1a_DEV/"

for t in `cat $DIR/1group_1a_dev_clientlist.out`
do

echo $t
#LOG=`ls -al $FILE | grep $T | grep WINDOWS | gawk '{print $9}'`
#LOG=`ls -al /cygdrive/e/wsus/group_1a_DEV/  | grep $t | grep WINDOWS | 
gawk '{print $9}'`
LOG=`ls -al $DIR | grep $t | grep WINDOWS`
echo $t
echo The value of LOG is $LOG
UPDATES_NEEDED=`cat $LOG | grep "updates detected" | tail -1`
echo $UPDATES_NEEDED

done




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