I have a .txt file that contain any # of lines and 6 tab-delimited fields / line. I want to write a script that would read each line and assign each field in a line to a specific variable. could someone please help me with this? thanks.

If you have 6 tab delimited fields, this script should get you started: !/bin/ksh OFS=$IFS IFS=" " # tab character between the double quotes while read f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 do echo $f1 echo $f2 echo $f3 echo $f4 echo $f5 echo $f6 done < d.file IFS=$OFS

Hello, I've a similar situation. But going one step further, I want a sample script that would add new records to the text file, with a user interface and ask the user a confirmation before saving to the file. Can someone please help me?? thanks!