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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2.  
  3. # ideone boilerplate: run in temp dir 
  4. t=$(mktemp -d -t ideone.XXXXXXXX) || exit
  5. trap 'rm -rf "$t"' ERR EXIT
  6. cd "$t"
  7.  
  8. cat <<\: >compute_list
  9. abcd up
  10. efgh down
  11. foo bar
  12. ijkl up
  13. :
  14.  
  15. verify()
  16. {
  17.   while true ;do
  18.       read -p "Have you fixed? Yes/No: " yn
  19.       case $yn in
  20.          YES|Yes|yes|y|Y)
  21.          printf "Hola"
  22.          # check_status # DON'T!
  23.          break
  24.          #continue
  25.          ;;
  26.          NO|No|no|n|N)
  27.          printf "Please fix"
  28.          ;;
  29.          *)
  30.          printf "Please answer yes or no.\n"
  31.          ;;
  32.      esac
  33.   done
  34. }
  35.  
  36. check_status()
  37. {
  38.   while IFS=" " read -u 3 -r rec1 rec2
  39.   do
  40.     if [ $rec2 == 'up' ]
  41.     then
  42.       echo "$rec1 is up"
  43.     else
  44.       echo "$rec1 is down so please fix"
  45.       verify
  46.     fi
  47.   done 3< <(cut -d " " -f1,2 compute_list)
  48. }
  49.  
  50. check_status
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 5552KB
comments (?)
stdin 
n
y
n
y
stdout 
abcd is up
efgh is down so please fix
Please fixHolafoo is down so please fix
Please fixHolaijkl is up
https://ideone.com/pVerFm
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71883496/bash-while-loop-going-to-infinte-loop-while-case-statement
language:
Bash (bash 5.0.3)
created:
3 years ago
visibility:
public

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