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Old 06-21-2012
Read text file and use it as input
I need to take a text file that holds a bunch of data and run each the stuff in it as an input for the program.


the file would hold stuff like this:
Code:
thing1.awesomesite.com 80 123.456
thing2.awesomesite.com 80 789.098
thing3.awesomesite.com 80 765.432
...

Now I already know the name of the file and the directory in which it is in. The only thing is how do i hold each part of the line separated by a space as a variable.
# 2  
Old 06-21-2012
Code:
while read var1 var2 var3
do
  myprogam $var1 $var2 $var3
done <  myfile_with_stuff_in_it

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