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Old 09-17-2010
Cut and read
Hi,


I have a file which contains comma separated values ex: abc, bdc
I need to read this file and provide each value(one by one) as a input to other function.

Can some one helpme...

-Vinodh' Kumar
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Old 09-17-2010
Something to get you started. We can read the file and convert each comma to a newline.
Assming this is a Bourne-type shell.

Code:
cat filename.csv | tr ',' '\n' | while read parameter
do
        echo "${parameter}"
done

./scriptname
abc
bdc

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