Dear Chloe, John Doe`s script is a good start, even though it will work for single words space separated. The LINE Variable only passes the Arguments as single words to ($1 and $2 respectively). I will also work on something for you too...
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, John Doe <jd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: chloe K <chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca> > > I have a file. list.txt (two columns) > > > > column1 column2 > > name address > > > > I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg: > > > > Dear: Chloe > > Address: CA > > > > Can I use this > > > > for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt > > For single words space separated: > > cat list.txt | while read LINE > do > set $LINE > printf "Dear: %s\nAddress: %s\n" $1 $2 >> $1.letter.txt > done > > JD > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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