Hi Chris, The only comment that I would add to this suggestion it to take note that all shell logic references logical lines. 6 logical lines equates to pressing the enter key 6 times. If this is what you mean rather than phyically seeing 6 lines then you are okay. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Tyler Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:49 PM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: Need to add date to script - On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 12:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to have a "date" command inserted to separate each > group of six lines. Can some one tell me how to do that or point me > in the right direction. To add a date every 6 lines, you could pipe your output through something like: |(x=5; while read LINE; do if ((x++==5)) ; then date ; x=0 ; fi ; echo $LINE ; done) -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
