Read File line by line with Shell Script (bash)
entro | March 28, 2007I realize this is a very basic issue, but when searching online I found a dearth of information regarding reading a text file line by line using a shell script. So below I have included the basic code you need.
#!/bin/bash #### skeleton code for reading a file line by line ## fill variable "thefile" with the name and path of the file you want to read line by line thefile=/home/var/nameoffileyouwanttoprocess ## the loop below pipes the output of the file into a variable ($line) line by line cat $thefile | while read line do echo $line #placeholder command to make sure everything is groovy done
Hopefully this helps some people!