Hi, I want to read a file in a C shell script and process all the words of each line as a command set. something like this read line from file get the first word from line and assign it to a variable get the second word and assign to another variable process based on these variables. read the second line from file ... .... Thanks Shailesh

Hi! try this: ## start FILE_NAME=test.txt #code to change separator(see note) for value in `cat $FILE_NAME` do echo $value done ## end For the separator, I can't remember the reserved shell variable, but usually it is set to space, tab and \n. But you can modify it so the for loops one line at the time(if you let only \n in this variable). Check into the shell documentation (Unix in a nutshell from O'Reilly is a good book for that)... Hope this help! Twisgabak