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From: ahh@glyph.kingston.ny.us (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: reading a list from a file
Message-ID: <1583@glyph.kingston.ny.us>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:49:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.175759.18653@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7395@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ahh@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan)
Organization: Moji Computing
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In article <7395@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
>In article <1991Mar6.175759.18653@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> ta-dw30@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>%Is there any way to read a list from a file? For instance, could I say
>%
[...]
> Try:
>for x in `cat filewithlistoffriends` # note these are `s not 's
>do
>finger $x
>done

or (in sh):
	while read blatz
	do
		finger $blatz
	done < some_file

where some_file contains:
	Joe
	Larry
	Bonehead-the-Wonder-Dog
	etc.

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