UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can i have a while loop as follows

while read inputline
do
<task>
done < name_list

and also store the values (delimited) on each line to temp variables so as to print them on screen as follows

while read inputline
do
set name | cut -d "," -f1 name_list # #i know this is not correct
set age | cut -d "," -f1 name_list # #i know this is not correct

echo $name
echo $age

done < name_list

exit 0

thanks for being patient

you didn't say what your file layout actually is so assuming a file layed out thus:

Code:

name,age
colin,30
trevor,28
deidre,45

Code:

awk 'FS="," {print $1 "\t" $2}' name_list

will achieve what you want.