UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,

I am new to unix scripting, please help me in solving this assignment..

I have a scenario, as follows:
1. i have a text file(read1.txt) with the following data
sairam,123
kamal,122
etc..


2. I have to write a unix script such a way that, i need to take first row from text file and store "sairam" in variable1 and
"123" in variable 2 using comma as delimiter ...like that for all rows in that textfile


Thanks in advance.....

i am using bourne shell

var1=`head -1 read1.txt | cut -d"," -f1`
var2=`head -1 read1.txt | cut -d"," -f2`

see man page of "cut" for more options.

What is the end goal you are trying to achieve?

i need for all the rows to be cutted and keep field1 in var1 and field in var2 ...
i will be great full if u give the code in "for loop"......

Is this an assignment ?

Try this..

Code:

awk -F"," '{print $1,$2}' read1.txt | while read var1 var2
do
        echo $var1 $var2
done