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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne Shell FOR loop confusion
Message-ID: <2999@solo1.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 14 Aug 89 12:00:52 GMT
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jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) writes:
\...	while read user passwd uid junk
\	do
\	   line=`expr $line + 1`
\	   echo "user${line}='$user' uid${line}='$uid'" 1>&4
\	done $defs

Why use fd 4, Jerry?  Stdout will do.
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