bash read file

#!/bin/sh
##################################
# Purpose: Cleanup any confirmation reports (*.pdf) older than xx days
# Called By:  batch daily cleanup process,  /Applications/xyz/distributor.sh
# Author: jeb
# Date: 4/20/07
# Comments: The while loop is preferred over the find -exec rm {} syntax because it
#           does not spawn a process for each file to be deleted.
#           The script expects (*.pdf) instead of (*.PDF) but the script would work
#           in case of (*.PDF) as the testing showed shell to be case insensitive.
# -mtime +30  yields files modified more than 30 days ago
# -mtime -10  would yield files modified less than 10 days ago
##################################
find /abc/xyz/reports/confirmations -type f -name "*.pdf"  -mtime +30 > cleanuplist
while read -r filename                                               
do                                                                   
print  "deleting " $filename                                   
rm $filename                                                         
done < cleanuplist

while read line; do echo $line; done

cat thefile | while read firstWord secondWord restOfLine
do
  echo $firstWord
  echo $secondWord
  echo $restOfLine
  # do other stuff like ls -l "$firstWord"
done