Shell Programming and Scripting

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

$FILE="test.file";

open FILE, "$FILE" or die "NO GO ($!)";

foreach (<FILE>) { chomp; push @contents, $_; };
foreach (@contents) { print $_,"\n" };

#! /bin/ksh

i=1
file=test.file

for line in `cat test.file`;do
        if [ $i == 1 ]; then
                var1=$line
        elif [ $i == 2 ]; then
                var2=$line
        elif [ $i == 3 ]; then
                var3=$line
        elif [ $i == 4 ]; then
                var4=$line
        fi
i=$(($i+1))
done
echo VAR1=$var1
echo VAR2=$var2
echo VAR3=$var3
echo VAR4=$var4

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