extracting a row from a file

Usha Shastri · #1 (**permalink**) 03-12-2009

hi...

i want to extract single row from a file at a time and i don't want to specify which row to be extracted in the command.
i mean i want to use a loop, so that i will fetch all the rows one after the another.
i used sed -n '$count p' filename
but this is not working.
please give me the solution

thank you

zaxxon · #2 (**permalink**) 03-12-2009

Code:

while read LINE; do
   #do something here with the LINE
done < infile

palanisvr · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2009

i hope this will solve your purpose

suppose you have a file named data.txt

#!/bin/ksh

for i in `cat data.txt`
do

echo $i

echo " do something until the iteration is completed "

done

Note : refer $i for the rows in the file

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