Hi all,

I have a file looks something like this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
aaaa
bbbbbb
ccc
dddddddd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I will like a script that can
echo line1
export line1 as env variable
echo line2
export line2 as env variable
etc
etc

Thanks in advance

Of course you should think about assigning variable names in your file.

Hi Zaxxon,

Thanks for the fast response...
It will be fine if I can set it as a variable in a file, but what I'm after is the following:

Say I have a text file named file.text that has the following entries:
aaaa
bbb
cc
d

What I want to do is to list them as a menu in format:

1) aaaa
2) bbb
3) cc
4) d

and at the same time set them as variables

sid1 = aaaa
sid2 = bbb
etc
etc

Can you please help with this, I have the following but it doesn't work like I want it to.

num = 'cat file.txt | wc -l'
for ELE in `grep -v "^~" file.txt`
do
for (( i = 0; i < num; i++))
do
echo "$i) ${ELE}"
sid $i="${ELE}"
done
done


The output from this gives:
1) aaaa
1) bbb

and doesn't set the variables correctly either.

Thanks in advance

If your shell has select then perhaps this is sufficient.

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