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From: mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil (Jeffrey B. McGough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to read sequentially from a file in SH (not KSH)
Message-ID: <510@wrdis01.af.mil>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:06:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.012336.2732@shibaya.lonestar.org>
Organization: 1926CCSG Robins AFB
Lines: 32

In article <1991Apr27.012336.2732@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>SH does not support this (at least not the one I have).  I have tried:
>
>while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
>  echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>done

This can be done by...

#! /bin/sh

FILENAME="/foo/bar"

while read VAR1 VAR2
do
{
	echo "$VAR1 VAR2"
}
done < "$FILENAME"

Hope this helps... 
The double quotes are my version of paranoia

I user stuff like this for various admin
tasks all the time...


-- 
Lator,                                       We cheat the other guy,
                                             and pass the savings on to you.
Jeffrey B. McGough
WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator                    (mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil)