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Hi,
This is my first post here and I am a newbie.

I have a file that looks like this [web page title:filename]:

Introduction:Intro_123.html
Product definition:Prod_def.html
System Setup:SSetup-64bit.html
Setting up user accounts:Set_user_acc.html

I tried to create a script that would output "The filename is so-and-so and the title of the page is so-and-so". Well, my script looks like this:

The output that I get is:

I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I have tried switching the lines that start with 'title' and 'htmlfile' around, and found that only the first ever get processed. Have also tried

while read line

instead of

while read file

...with no better results. Appreciate any help !

Code:

$ cat myfile
Introduction:Intro_123.html
Product definition:Prod_def.html
System Setup:SSetup-64bit.html
Setting up user accounts:Set_user_acc.html

Code:

$ nawk -F: '{print "The filename is:",$1,"and the title of the page is:",$2}' myfile
The filename is: Introduction and the title of the page is: Intro_123.html
The filename is: Product definition and the title of the page is: Prod_def.html
The filename is: System Setup and the title of the page is: SSetup-64bit.html
The filename is: Setting up user accounts and the title of the page is: Set_user_acc.html

Thanks for the quick reply!

Or in shell:

Code:

while IFS=: read title htmlfile; do
  echo "The name of the file is $htmlfile and the title is $title."
done < infile