Reading line by line from a file

tej.buch · #1 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

Hello..

Is there any way in UNIX shell scripting by which we can read a file one line at a time and at the same time maintains a count of where to read the next line from?

i could not find any such command and so i am currently using something like

head -$COUNTER | tail -1
COUNTER=`expr $COUNTER + 1`

to read successive lines..

bye

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

See this - 12 Ways to Parse a file

tej.buch · #3 (**permalink**) 01-23-2006

well thanks a lot...

i will go through that....

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