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# 1  
Old 05-16-2012
Help needed in reading line value into variable
I have a file which has data in 8 lines:

Code:
10
34
 6
 1
 4
46
67
31

I am trying to read each value into each different variable so that I use these variables in preparing my report.

Another option is to dynamically print each line values in the report like below:

Code:
users with privA: line 1 value
users with privB: line 2 value
users with privC: line 3 value
users with privD: line 4 value
users with privE: line 5 value
users with privF: line 6 value
users with privG: line 7 value
users with privH: line 8 value

Please help me out with the correct command

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-16-2012 at 06:06 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-16-2012
Try:
Code:
for priv in privA privB privC privD privE privF privG privH
do 
  read val
  echo "users with $priv: $val"
done < infile

# 3  
Old 05-17-2012
This works fine thanks you very much
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