Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a Main shell script file. In that the below lines(7) is spooled in Oracle & written to a file say temp.out

INSTANCE_N
----------
undefined
PROACT1
REPCAT1
PROACT2
REPCAT2

I want to ignore the first 3 lines & put the rest 4 lines PROACT1..REPCAT2 into the arrays. So that i can use those values in my program. How to do that. My environment is Sunsolaris, Oracle.

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks

Code:

tail -4 filename | tr -s '\n'  ' '  | read one two three four

The variables: one two three four
now have the values from the last four lines of the file

an array

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
set -A myarray `tail -4 filename | tr -s '\n'  ' '  `

To obtain all lines except first 3:

set -A myarray `sed -ne '4,$ p' filename | tr -s '\n' ' ' `