Hi,

Instead of:

cat $1 | while read line; do
Try:

Code:

for line in `cat $1`
do

That way you don't have the "read inside a read loop issue" that alister pointed out. BTW well spotted alister - that one didn't register with me but once you pointed it out it seemed the best way to fix the script was to have an outer loop not using reads so the inner loop could issue reads.

Hope this helps.

-Andy.