Shell Programming and Scripting

add         data1        data2
delete     data1        data2
replace    data1        data2         data3
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#!/bin/ksh
while read line; do
 read -A array <<<$line
 n=${#array[@]}
 echo "${array[0]} is my function"
 for ((i=1;i<$n;i++)); do
  print "${array[$i]} is datum"
  done
 print "and now I can do what I like with them"
 print
done < my_text_file

#!/bin/ksh

while read function args
do
  printf "Function: [%s] Args: [%s]\n" "$function" "$args"

done < x.dat

exit 0