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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers help with simple read script! Post 302179445 by kevlar28 on Thursday 27th of March 2008 05:14:21 PM
Old 03-27-2008
help with simple read script!

Hi y'all...I've been wracking my brain over this very simple script that reads in a textfile and echos each line. But I keep getting an error.
Below is my script:

#!/bin/bash

while read myline
do
echo $myline
done < t_file-20080221.01.asc

The error I am getting is:
syntax error near unexpected token `done'

Funny thing is if I just cut and paste the line directly into the command prompt, it works...HELP!

Cheers!
 

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