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Would this work? I'm trying to:

1. Read first line into a variable.
2. Loop from second line to EOF.
3. Write rsync command with variable as source and current line as target.
4. Pipe...

Is there a way to get the line number from the while loop, or should I start a counter for that?

I just tried directing the output (valid rsync commands) to a temp file, and running the temp file as a script; and it worked. Is there a better way?

OK, so I'm able to loop through the external file and read a line into a variable. (I'm working with Mac OS X.)

SRCURL="~/Desktop/listrsync/source/";
while read URL
do
echo "$URL";
echo...

Re: the rules; it's not for homework, and I have searched but didn't find anything relating to this specific idea.

Frankly, I don't know where to start. I've been looking at Awk and at Bash...

I'm going to have a text file formatted something like this:

some_name http://www.someurl.com/
another_name http://www.anotherurl.com/
third_name http://www.thirdurl.com/

I need to write a...