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supreme_command

05-11-2004 10:38 PM

Extracting Lines from files

Hey
I know this is probably a pretty simple questions

But how can i extract one line at a time from a file and then be able to do operations on the line - for a script

like

for line in $(....
do
..

Bebo	05-12-2004 04:21 AM

Hello,

Do something like

Code:

FILE="~/a_file"



cat $FILE | while read LINE ; do

  bla bla

done

This way you get whole lines from the file in LINE. There is an alternative, but that way LINE would contain every word one at a time, not whole lines:

Code:

FILE="~/a_file"



for line in `cat $FILE` ; do

  bla bla

done

HTH

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