Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script where 3 parametrs are passed to it and it creates the file for each site form a template. If i want to
get the 3rd parameter (which is the site) passed to the script to come from another file how I can change the script tp acheive it?

Here is my script: what i have in the sciprt is simple sed commands.

I need the 3rd parameter to be read from the another file and run it recursively to create 20 different files.

The site file has 20 entries and hence it needs to create 20 files.

Can some body let mw know how i can do that?

assuming '/path/to/siteFile' containts one 'site' per line.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

for site in $(< /path/to/siteFile)
do
 update.ksh 20071912 1 "${site}"
done

Vgresh,

Its not able to read the contents from site file and i am getting the below error:

update.ksh 20071912 1 ./

what i have in there is :

Vgresh,

Its able to read from the sites.txt but not able to run the script .

Its not able to execute the script with the site parameter replaced. can you let me know the reason

for site in $(/home/sravan/sites.txt)
do
update.ksh 20071912 1 "${site}"
done

Vgresh,

I am getting the below error:


/home/sravan/sites.txt: jon: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[2]: ind: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[3]: bur: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[4]: lan: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[5]: viz: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[6]: vaz: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[7]: cha: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[8]: hon: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[9]: hcl: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[10]: ron: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[11]: rap: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[12]: jai: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[13]: can: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[14]: rom: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[15]: jon: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[16]: son: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[17]: pan: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[18]: cri: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[19]: ros: not found
/home/sravan/sites.txt[20]: pne: not found

look at my original post:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

for site in $(< /path/to/siteFile)
do
 update.ksh 20071912 1 "${site}"
done

Thanks Vgresh!!!! Thats simply great.

can you let me know the significance of < here.