OT: Need some shell scripting hints ;)

[Jason DeVita]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:28, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > line=`cat file`
> > for i in $line; do
> >   /bin/something --to $i
> > done
> >
> > Would do it.
>
> Only if there are no whitespaces in the lines.

This is not a very elegant way to do it, but it should work:

for x in $(awk '{print NR}' file)
do
    y=$(awk '{if(NR==x)print}' x=$x file)
    do something to $y
done


-J