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Old 04-27-2005
Newbie loop help!
Hi,

I'm trying create a loop from a txt file and set variables from its contents.

i.e. txt file contains three entries 'command1,command2' I want to loop the txt file and set variable1 as command1 etc etc.
# 2  
Old 04-28-2005
Code:
var=`cat file1`
echo $var | while read a b c 
do 
echo $a
echo $b
echo $c

done

 
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