I stumbled upon this issue a couple of days ago while trying to debug a deployment script. The script would read entries from a CSV file and provision VMs one by one. The issue was that only the first entry from the file would get processed, after which the script would exit normally as if there were no more entries.
As it turns out, if you are using a “while read” construct to read something from a file and in the loop you have something that reads input from stdin… well, it will eat up the rest of the lines from the file, naturally, causing the while loop to break.
In my case I had a ssh command in the loop. All it took to fix it was to deny reading from stdin by adding the “ssh -n” flag:
while IFS="," read newhost newipaddr; do ssh -n $newhost "my remote commands" done << newhosts.csv