SYSTEM command

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
[...]
> > Better would be:
> >
> >     while read afile
> >     do
> >         wc -l $afile
> >     done
> >
> 
> Yes, but you will then need to make sure you exit from
> the loop, otherwise you will have a zombie on your
> hands :-)

The loop will exit when the read fails, which will happen when filePro
closes the pipe to it.

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