> > "E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > while read line; do > > echo $line >> $TMPFILE > > done > > Any special reason for not simply doing > cat >> $TMPFILE
Um, yeah, it looks neater :) I was just mindlessly copying the original poster's script. Anyway, you actually still have one superfluous character there :) cat > $TMPFILE is enough, so that the entire script becomes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #! /bin/bash TMPFILE=/tmp/mymore.$$.tmp cat > $TMPFILE vi $TMPFILE < /dev/tty rm -f $TMPFILE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
