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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading line by line from a text file Post 302498677 by sunrexstar on Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 06:58:37 AM
Old 02-22-2011
reading line by line from a text file
Hi,
I have a text file something like this:
Code:
10.10.10.1,
ldap,
cn=users,dc=example,dc=com
.....
...
and many more lines
...
...

now i want to read each individual line from the file and assign it to a variable

example:
the script should read
Code:
10.10.10.1

and assign it to a variable say $x
like $x=10.10.10.1
and then read the next line
Code:
cn=users,dc=example,dc=com

and assign that to another variable like
$y=n=users,dc=example,dc=com
and so on.

Please any idea on how can i achieve this, esp reading each line from a file and storing it in a variable.

thanks.
 

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