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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Open txt and store line in a var Post 302274810 by Gee-Money on Thursday 8th of January 2009 12:10:10 PM
Old 01-08-2009
you could read a file line by line, and store the entire line in a $VARIABLE, and then process the line further from there:

Code:
while read LINE ;do
 "start processing the $LINE variable"
done < file_to_read

 

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line(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           line(1)

NAME
line - read one line SYNOPSIS
line DESCRIPTION
The line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is: 0 Successful completion >0 End-of-file on input. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sh(1), read(2), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 line(1)
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