Shell Script Help

Angelo Christou christou44 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 29 07:48:41 PST 2006


Hello Patrick,

Your suggestion works perfectly. Thank you very much for helping a learner such as myself.

Ang.



Proniewski Patrick <patrick.proniewski at univ-lyon2.fr> wrote: On 29 janv. 06, at 16:10, Angelo Christou wrote:

> list.txt contains:
>
> bob home 9002
> jim data 9005

> Running the following for each line is what I'm trying to do:
> myprogram bob home 9002
> myprogram jim data 9005
> and so on......

give this a try:

while read myline; do
    set -- $myline
    myprogram $1 $2 $3
done < list.txt



Patrick PRONIEWSKI
-- 
Administrateur Syst�me - SENTIER - Universit� Lumi�re Lyon 2




		
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