How to read sequentially from a file in SH (not KSH)
Michael Stefanik
mike at bria.UUCP
Sun Apr 28 19:36:35 AEST 1991
In an article, afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
|
|while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
| echo $VAR1 $VAR2
|done
|
|but I keep reading the first line in the file over and over. Nothing in
|the manual page seems to be usable in this situation. How is this done
|under SH? Is it possible?
cat $FILENAME | while read VAR1 VAR2
do echo $VAR1 $VAR2
done
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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
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