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Read file line by line - Shell Scr

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Hi, Can anyone tell me how to read a text file line by line in a shell prog?

Name: Mark
Date: September 23, 2002 at 15:47:57 Pacific

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Hi- Try this cat somefile | while read line do something $line done I think this will work -Mark

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