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Read/Write to file from within linux script

Asked by zeraxis_ee in SuSE Linux

I have a linux script, that is scheduled in the crontab to run every minute.

This script, looks at a file (startbrowserext) and read the one line contained in that file.
if it says: "open", then the script opens firefox and then changes the text in the file to "donotopen"

if it says "donotopen" it does nothing.

Basically the text is set to "open" by an external program in which case the script opens firefox.

I have created a script, that reads from the file as below, but not sure how to change the text to "donotopen" once it opened the browser.

The code so far:
#!/bin/sh

fname="startbrowserext"

exec<$fname

while read line
do

echo $line;

case "$line" in
"open")

echo "firefox"
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
firefox http://localhost:8080/ZAM
;;
esac

done

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Read/Write to file from within linux script

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