pklammer@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Peter F. Klammer) (04/12/89)
The good news: I got my UNIX C SHELL FIELD GUIDE! The bad news: pages 281-312 are blank (sigh). Thank you all for help and responses to "how to read a file from csh". I am finding my ways of thinking becoming more accomodated to csh/pipes/unix ways of doing. For instance, instead of reading that file, I piped it to awk a couple times to pick out and display the interesting lines with line numbers, and my csh script just handles a user response of the selected line number. Then I give that number to another awk command and voila!, I get just the one line that I really wanted in the first place. I am writing a script for password/account maintenance; we generate initial passwords around here. I find that passwd (the program) is kinda insistent about reading from the terminal: it gets around redirection like: passwd <tmp.new How do you get passwd to take new password inputs from a file? -- /** --poko " I'm half Estonian, which makes up for the other half. " Pete Klammer/Systems Programmer/(303)556-3915 PKLAMMER@PIKES.COLORADO.EDU CU-Denver Computing Services / Campus Box 169 BITNET: PKLAMMER@CUDENVER 1200 Larimer St NC2506 / Denver CO 80204-5300 UU:!boulder!pikes!pklammer **/