Shell Programming and Scripting

cat file | xargs -n 1 update.ksh 20071912 1

       < file standard  input  is  redirected  from  file, which is opened for
              reading.

       for name [ in word ... term ] do list done
              where term is either a newline or a ;.  For  each  word  in  the
              specified  word  list, the parameter name is set to the word and
              list is executed.  If in is not used to specify a word list, the
              positional  parameters ("$1", "$2", etc.) are used instead.  For
              historical reasons, open and close braces may be used instead of
              do  and  done (e.g., for i; { echo $i; }).  The exit status of a
              for statement is the last exit status of list; if list is  never
              executed, the exit status is zero.

#!/bin/ksh
$ echo 'fred' > foo
$ echo $(<foo)
fred