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Old 06-13-2007
Read and store each line of a file to a variable
Hi all,

I'm quite new to unix and hope that someone can help me on this.
I'm using csh.
Below is what i intend to do.
1. I stored some data in a file.
2. I intend to read the file line by line and store each line of data into a variable, so that i can used it later.

Anyone have any suggestion how this can be done?
Pls help. Thanks.

Regards.
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Old 06-14-2007
please use the search function, this same question has been asked many times
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Old 06-14-2007
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Originally Posted by seijihiko
Hi all,

I'm quite new to unix and hope that someone can help me on this.
I'm using csh.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html#uh-0
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Quote:
Below is what i intend to do.
1. I stored some data in a file.
2. I intend to read the file line by line and store each line of data into a variable, so that i can used it later.

In a shell that has arrays (e.g., bash, ksh93):

Code:
IFS='
'
file=( $( cat "$FILE" ) )

However, that will probably be no better than reading the file when you need it.

If you need to store it in variables that depend on the contents of each line:
Code:
while IFS= read -r line
do
   ## check for criteria and store in variable here
done < "$FILE"


# 4  
Old 06-14-2007
reading line and storing number
usage of perl for reading files and doing string related operation is much powerful and easy
U can achieve the same using sed or awk or using shell scripts
This was just a suggestion

Best Regards,
Rakesh UV
# 5  
Old 06-17-2007
can use awk
Hi,
I think you can use AWK.(I am a newer also)Smilie

awk 'BEGIN{
i=1
}
{var[++i]=$0}
END{
for (a in var)
print var[a]
}'

Pls try!
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