2006. július 19. 16:31, Mladen Adamovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,: > Tony Terlecki wrote: > >> Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, > >> loop through each line and parse the line of text. > > > > Depending on what you want to do: > > > > man sed > > man awk > > Yeah, but he asked about shell commands which read files, and that is 'cat' > so my addon to your answer is : see also 'man cat' "The purpose of cat is to concatenate (or "catenate") files. If it's only one file, concatenating it with nothing at all is a waste of time, and costs you a process." — Randal L. Schwartz > > In bash script you might use something like > for i in $(cat yourfile); > do > do_something_with $i > done >
http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/ In a bash script you should use something like this: for i in $(<yourfile) do do_something_with $i done Daniel -- LeVA
