Extracting a line in a text file - Shell Programming and Scripting

otheus · #4 (**permalink**) 10-11-2008

We're both giving you essentially the same answer. When you mean "each line individually", do you mean you want each in its own variable? Bash3 supports arrays, so you could do it that way. If your file contains a fixed number of lines, say 3, you could do this:

Code:

cat yourfile.txt | {
  read line1
  read line2
  read line3

  # do stuff with line1 or line2 or line3
}