help with bash script

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 22:30 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> I'm trying to do something very simple but failing, and would appreciate
> some pointers.
> 
> I'm trying to create a script that executes a command on a series of files
> one-at-a-time, pausing between each execution.  The input files are all in a
> single file, one on each line. I have
> .......................
> #!/bin/bash
> cd <to working directory>
> cat <file with list of input files> | while read FILECHECKED do
> 
>    <command> "$FILECHECKED"
>    echo
>    RESPONSE="Z"
>    echo -n Press a key to continue....
>    while [ "$RESPONSE" = "Z" ]
>    do
>       read RESPONSE
>    done
>    echo
> done
> ......................
> 
> The command executes, but there is no pause between the processing of each
> input file.  I've tried various variations using the read command, to no
> avail.  Curiously, if I add
> echo "$FILECHECKED" and "$RESPONSE"
> just before the final 'done', it prints out the name of the file it has
> just processed and the file it is about to process - not 'Z'.

The read commands are interfering with each other because you redirected
input into the while loop read.  Change

read RESPONSE 

to

read RESPONSE </dev/tty

You also need a ";" after the first read RESPONSE or put the "do" on a
separate line.

Cheers
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