Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Everybody,
I need a help. I have the follow code and I need read the first line of the hosts file. Each line from the file have the format "hostname;IPAddress", on line 4 I just need of the hostname, ok this works! On line 5 I need the hostname before the ipaddr word and the IPAddress after the ipaddr word, but when I run the script, the ipaddr is read like a argument from cut command. How I make this filter works?

Code:

1 for i in $(cat $hosts);
2 do
3
4 echo "create host_plain" $i | cut -f1 -d ";" >> $arq1
5 echo "modify network_objects" $i | cut -f1 -d ";" ipaddr $i | cut -f2 -d ";" >> 6 $arq1
7 echo "update network_objects" $i | cut -f1 -d ";"  >> $arq1

done

exit

I really apreciate you help!

try:

Code:

while IFS=";" read hostname ipaddress
do

   echo "create host_plain" $hostname
   echo "modify network_objects" $hostname ipaddr $ipaddress
   echo "update network_objects" $hostname

done < $hosts > $arq1

Thanks rdrtx. This Works!