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Old 03-06-2014
How to pass parameter to pipe command row-wise?
Hi,

I have a list of parameter in a file. I want to pass them one by one to piped command and syntax is like
Code:
<command> <parameter> <command continues>

How to achieve that ?

Thanks
Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-06-2014 at 03:56 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 03-06-2014
Something like this?
Code:
while read parameter
do
  <command> "$parameter" <command continues>
done < file

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