Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
Some one please help me with this script.

I have a file "sequence.txt" and contents of it look like below.

1 5
3 7
4 7
5 74

from my script i should be able to read every single and save the first columnbs to variable x1, x2, x3 and second column as y1, y2, y3 and so on. Then i can use those x and y values to my rest of the script.

Thank you in advance.

#!/usr/bin/ksh

count=0;
while read each_line
do
x[count]=`echo "$each_line" | cut -f 1 -d ' '`
y[count]=`echo "$each_line" | cut -f 2 -d ' '`
count=`expr $count + 1`
done < unix_forum_file.txt

i=0;
while [ $i -lt $count ]
do
print ${x[$i]};
print ${y[$i]};
(( i=i+1 ))
done


Filename : cat unix_forum_file.txt

2 3
4 5
6 7
12 32
44 22
32 11


$ ./unix_forum.ksh

2
3
4
5
6
7
12
32
44
22
32
11


I hope this helps .....

THanx for the great help.

Rather than calling cut to break up the read line
try the following

Code:

count=0;
while read num1 num2
do
  x[count]=$num1
  y[count]=$num2
  ((count++))
done < file

or more tersely

Code:

count=0;
while read x[count] y[count]
do
  ((count++))
done < file

Both work for ksh93. Have not tested in any other version of ksh or bash.