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# 1  
Old 08-27-2013
Getting lines from .txt file
Hi

I have a file with contents:

Code:
NAMES
John
carrey
williams

How can I get all the names and store them in seperate variables(or arrays)

please keep in mind that the no. of such names is not known.Three here is a bogus value


~thanks
Last edited by Scott; 08-27-2013 at 08:13 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 08-27-2013
Since you've not specified the language, I've assumed that you need a bash script.

Code:
[user@host ~]$ cat>file
John
carrey
williams
[user@host ~]$ cat test.sh
#! /bin/bash

i=0

while read line
do
    namesArr[$i]=$line
    (( i++ ))
done < file

echo ${namesArr[@]}
[user@host ~]$
[user@host ~]$ ./test.sh
John carrey williams
[user@host ~]$

# 3  
Old 08-27-2013
my bad !
Its bash Smilie
how can we use awk for this ??
# 4  
Old 08-27-2013
Using awk

Code:
awk '{a[i++]=$0} END{for(i in a){print a[i]}}'  inputfile

# 5  
Old 08-27-2013
If you don't want the Names' file to be among the files to be worked upon, you could also try
Code:
awk 'BEGIN {while (getline A[++i] < "file"); . . .

In bash, you might want to consider the mapfile builtin.
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