OT: Need some shell scripting hints ;)

[Atro Tossavainen]

> I'm stuck with writing a shell script that is supposed to read a text
> file line by line.

Use the "read" command in the shell.

#!/bin/sh

while read x
do
	some stuff with $x
done

Run this as "script < file"

Using "read" gets rid of the annoying problem in Nathan's suggestion
that Konstantin pointed out that a "for" loop over `cat $file` would
not loop over entire lines, but instead over whitespace-separated
words in those lines too.

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