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# 1  
Old 12-09-2009
Seperate file content
hi all,
i have some file whoes contents are

0 /home8/mc09ats/UnixCw/a1
1 /home8/mc09ats/UnixCw/a2
2 /home8/mc09ats/b3
3 /home8/mc09ats/UnixCw/d1

i want to seperate the content following way...

fileindex= 0

filepath= /home8/mc09ats/UnixCw/a1

how i can do this?
# 2  
Old 12-09-2009
present your problem more clearly. what do you mean by separate? separate into files?? and what have you tried??
# 3  
Old 12-09-2009
seperate it means part before space i want in one variable(fileindex) and part after space in other(filepath)
fileindex and filepath are variables

---------- Post updated at 09:26 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:25 PM ----------

while IFS=\ read index path;do
File_Index="$index"
File_Path="$path"
done<$Output
i have tried this one...
i think for loop will be better...but i dont know how to use it
# 4  
Old 12-09-2009
Code:
while read -r a b
do
 fileindex="$a"
 filepath="$b"
done <"file"

# 5  
Old 12-09-2009
Thak you so much....Its working so file
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