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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to give a text file as input while running a program? Post 302755843 by jacobs.smith on Monday 14th of January 2013 02:09:17 PM
Old 01-14-2013
How to give a text file as input while running a program?
Hi Friends,

I am running a program

Code:
/path/to/program -i 1 100 -o /path/to/output/op_1_100.txt

In the above command, I have to try various number of combinations at the -i parameter and the output file name varies with each combination.

Now, I have my -i parameter text file, which is like this

Code:
cat input.txt
1 101
1 150
1 235
1 600

and the corresponding output file names in another file called output.txt

Code:
cat output.txt
op_1_101.txt
op_1_150.txt
op_1_235.txt
op_1_600.txt

So, I would like to run my command this way

Code:
/path/to/program -i /path/to/input.txt -o /path/to/output.txt

Any pointers are highly appreciated towards this issue.
 

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