Shell Programming and Scripting

9999,abdc,123
9988,aba_12,2323

echo "This is $a followed by $b an then $c"

cat test | cut -d ',' -f1| cut -d ',' -f2| cut -d ',' -f3| while read a read b
do 
echo "This is $a followed by $b an then $c"
done

C:\cygwin\tmp>gawk -F',' '{print "This is "$1" followed by "$2" and then "$3}' bopis.txt
This is S followed by h and then 07/06/2010
This is S followed by h and then 07/06/2010

echo "http://mayank.gup.com/method=add&number=1st_field&name=2nd_field&mask=3rd_field"

awk -F',' '{print "echo http://mayank.gup.com/method=add&number="$1"&name="$2"&mask="$3}' infile

echo "http://mayank.gup.com/method=add&number=1st_field&name=2nd_field&mask=3rd_field" |
awk -F"[=&]" '{print $4, $6, $8}' |
while read a b c
do
  # do your stuff here with $a, $b and $c...
  .
  .
done

awk -F, '{print "http://mayank.gup.com/method=add&number=" $1 "&name=" $2 "&mask=" $3}' file