sorry for being dumb here, but is there a way my for loop can take an entire line of a file into consideration instead of each word in a line... ill explain
Hi,
have a basic query.
Please see the below code:
list="one two three"
for var in $list ; do
echo $var
list="nolist"
Done
Wht if I want to print only first/ last line in the list
Eg one & three
Regards
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