Help with command line arguments ?

synapse · 02-23-2004, 12:22 AM

Hi all

Heres my latest question Ive been trying and reading but i cant seem to get this right.

I have a separate file with a number of lines of text in it , say a word for each line,
how can i get this file to be redirected and read into a command as command line arguments to the actual command that i am using?

thanx

jib2 · 02-23-2004, 01:43 AM

maybe something like this :

Code:

while read one_line; do
	yourcommand $one_line
done < name_of_your_textfile

Berhanie · 02-23-2004, 02:25 AM

you could do this:
cat filename | xargs command