Bash script does not continue to read the next line of file

Question

I have a shell script that saves the output of a command that is executed to a CSV file. It reads the command it has to execute from a shell script which is in this format:

ffmpeg -i /home/test/videos/avi/418kb.avi /home/test/videos/done/418kb.flv
ffmpeg -i /home/test/videos/avi/1253kb.avi /home/test/videos/done/1253kb.flv
ffmpeg -i /home/test/videos/avi/2093kb.avi /home/test/videos/done/2093kb.flv

You can see each line is an ffmpeg command. However, the script just executes the first line. Just a minute ago it was doing nearly all of the commands. It was missing half for some reason. I edited the text file that contained the commands and now it will only do the first line. Here is my bash script:

#!/bin/bash
# Shell script utility to read a file line line.
# Once line is read it will run processLine() function

#Function processLine
processLine(){
line="$@"

START=$(date +%s.%N)

eval $line > /dev/null 2>&1 

END=$(date +%s.%N)
DIFF=$(echo "$END - $START" | bc)

echo "$line, $START, $END, $DIFF" >> file.csv 2>&1
echo "It took $DIFF seconds"
echo $line
}

# Store file name
FILE=""

# get file name as command line argument
# Else read it from standard input device
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
   FILE="/dev/stdin"
else
   FILE="$1"
   # make sure file exist and readable
   if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
    echo "$FILE : does not exists"
    exit 1
   elif [ ! -r $FILE ]; then
    echo "$FILE: can not read"
    exit 2
   fi
fi
# read $FILE using the file descriptors

# Set loop separator to end of line
BAKIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
exec 3<&0
exec 0<$FILE
while read line
do
    # use $line variable to process line in processLine() function
    processLine $line
done
exec 0<&3

# restore $IFS which was used to determine what the field separators are
BAKIFS=$ORIGIFS
exit 0

Thank you for any help.

UPDATE 2

Its the ffmpeg commands rather than the shell script that isn't working. But I should of been using just "\b" as Paul pointed out. I am also making use of Johannes's shorter script.

Answer 1

I think that should do the same and seems to be correct:

#!/bin/bash

CSVFILE=/tmp/file.csv

cat "$@" | while read line; do
    echo "Executing '$line'"
    START=$(date +%s)
    eval $line &> /dev/null
    END=$(date +%s)
    let DIFF=$END-$START

    echo "$line, $START, $END, $DIFF" >> "$CSVFILE"
    echo "It took ${DIFF}s"
done

no?

Answer 2

ffmpeg reads STDIN and exhausts it. The solution is to call ffmpeg with:

 ffmpeg </dev/null ...

See the detailed explanation here: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/089

Update:

Since ffmpeg version 1.0, there is also the -nostdin option, so this can be used instead:

 ffmpeg -nostdin ...