guys i'm stille working on my little programme and i have not solved my problem:

i want to emulate the behaviour of the command

paste - file

which takes input from the user and from a specified file/s and merges together the typing and the content of the file/s one line at the time.

how could I say: "take one line from input and first line from file, then again input and second line of the file till the end of the file and then exit"?

suggestions? thanx.

try this....

for next in `cat /path/to/file`
do
echo "User input..."
read user
echo "$next $user"
done