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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash scripting - Newbie Post 302964427 by sea on Thursday 14th of January 2016 10:09:58 AM
Old 01-14-2016
Heya

Well, working with the stuff from the book, i dont think that this is the first thing to do for you.
You might want to search the book index for 'IFS' and 'do/while loop' to read files.
If there's a chapter about AWK, then that might be interesting as well.

In my consideration, that (awk) would be advanced, while the 'IFS while loop' would be basic/intermediate (for you).

hth
 

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