for line in `cat filename`
do
do_whatever_with $line
done
And just to test $line
for line in `cat filename`
do
echo $line
done
Rick
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Niclas Domack wrote:
> A (probably) stupid question from a shell-programming newbie..
>
> I have got a long list of usernames and passwords which I want to read and pass to
>the htpasswd command. I need a function which reads a line of a file, giving me a
>variable with the contents of that line, then moving on to the next line and so on,
>looping. I looked around, but the best I found was the 'read' command which I only
>get to read one line... I know there must be a way to do this, but I can't find it...
>help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Niclas
>
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