scripting++ and other joys

[sbc_compliant]

When PHB was asking why I was still here, I said that I was trying to find a way to batch process until EOF.

He introduced me to the joys of while read foo; do and to call it by either cat file | script or script < file. He also showed me some variations on the logic: while read < file; do and while read < $1; do.

I've made two scripts, that I've needed to make for a while, in the last hour, and they both do what I want them to do. Yay!

Here's one:

bulkDomainRegCheck.sh

#! /bin/bash

# performs a batch whois lookup against NetSol

while read myline 
        do
                whois -h whois.networksolutions.com $myline
        done

Additionally, today I learned about file blah to find out what kind of file "blah" is.

Awesomesauce.