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Old 02-14-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by otheus View Post
In ksh and bash, you can also parse out the first word from the rest:

Code:
case "${line%% *}" in
   first|second|third) echo "$line";;
esac

Code:
while read -r a b
do
 case $a in 
  ....
 esac
done