I tried to explain this earlier, but did a poor job of it. So I am trying again but taking a different approach.....

I have a file called test_words. In this file I have one line with 5 three letter words, with a single space seperating the words.(I.e., "cat car mop red pin")

I want to create a script that will read the file and loop each word individually into a command until all words in the file have been used. Use the echo command for arguements sake.

the output would look like this:

cat
car
mop
red
pin

The file test_word may change, by adding words or subtracting words, but always use a space as the delimiter.

can anyone help with this?

Thank you in advance for any and all help on this.

Something like this?

Regards

Thank you for helping with seperating it, Franklin, but how to put it in a loop to run a command with each word? that is where I really need the help.

Try:

tr ' ' '\n' <file |sed "s/^/$CMND /" | sh

The above pipe-lined command will put $CMND (i.e. whatever is in CMND variable) before each word as one per line and then will execute all of them, again in sequence.

I hope this is what you wanted to do.

...remove the echo and put your command in place of "your_cmd_goes_here"

Shamrock, Thank you that worked perfect!!!! Sham-rocks!!

Thank you all, for your help.

for some reason I could not get it to work with what unilover suggested. not sure why but here is the command that worked with Shamrock.


for word in $(<file)
do response=command {$word is located within command}
echo
echo "$response"
echo "$response" >> ./return-data
file=return-data
done

cat "$file" | lpr
echo "All data has been sent to the following file."
echo "file"
echo "Script complete."



Thanks a million all. And I am sorry for posting in two forums. I did not get a sponse, so I thought it was ok, to post in an advance forum. Again, sorry, I am a newb to this forum.