OT: bash script - unexpected exit

[Hiisi]

On 16 January 2012 20:57, Hiisi <hiisi at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 16 January 2012 20:50, Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> put a 'set -x' in there so you can see what's happening during the execution.  It would be interesting to know what $line is getting
>> set to.  You may be surprised.
>>
>> Kevin
>
> Thanks for you help, Kevin. It doesn't display anything during first
> loop nor to the second. All I get is '+ read line'. But on the second
> loop it exits exactly after this line. If I'm trying to echo $line it
> doesn't. So, problem seemingly with hosts file. Here's a few line of
> it:
>  cat hosts
> calc-4.macros
> calc-5.macros

Never mind. I changed it to use for line in `cat hosts` and now it works.
Sorry for the noise, list. Thanks for the tip, Kevin. That was fast!
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