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# 1  
Old 05-26-2010
Question For Loop and assigning Value using Sed
Hi,

Please help me writing for loop to fetch data and store in variable from a text file which contains data as below:

Code:
 
12
 
46
 
56
 
5466
 
111

There are 40 lines of data...!!!!
I jus need all data from line no 4 to 40 ie data for 4,6,8......40.
# 2  
Old 05-26-2010
Please can you post the output expected ?

I'm not sure of your requirement.
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Old 05-26-2010
ya sure........!!!!

i want to send automated mail using script which will be like this....

Code:
table name                  count1                count2           count3
-------------------------------------------------------------------
table1                        11111                  22222            33333

and so on...

this counts i want to pull from a text file and assign it to variables so that i can form table like this.

now while pulling data the txt file contains data as

Code:
1
 
2
 
3
 
4

ie a new line after every data and one new line at the begining too....

so want to use for loop to go thorugh data and store it in variable so that i can use it to form above table....

Hope this xplainsss...!
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