[PMX:##] OT: Need some shell scripting hints ;)

Jim Hart yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Oct 2 17:35:01 2003


It really depends on what the 'some stuff' is. Many Unix utilites will 
cycle through the lines of a file automatically. Tell us what you want 
to do to the lines and I'll try to help.

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 05:04  PM, Alexander Holst wrote:

> 	some stuff with $LINE  # for every line one iteration
>
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and from town to town, he carried the character of one
thoroughly incompetent. No man can bear the word applied to
him without some flush of colour, as indeed there is none other
that so emphatically slams in a man's face the door of self-
respect." Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb Tide