Question

I’m trying to modify a ksh script to print out the line that contains the phrase “/var/corefiles” . I’m fairly new to scripting, so this has me buggered. For example, if I have the following line in a file

/dev/x /dev/x2 /var/corefiles yes

And I use this for loop:

for $host in $(grep "var/corefiles" $VFSTAB_LOC); do
         echo $i
done

It outputs:

 /dev/x
 /dev/x2
 /var/corefiles
 yes

I’m a little confused as to why it only prints out one chunk at a time. If anyone has any explanations/modifications they would be most appreciated!

Answer 1

Simply doing grep "var/corefiles" $VFSTAB_LOC (without the for or echo) will do exactly what you say you’re wanting to do.