On Wednesday, May 18th 2005 at 10:22 -0700, quoth Rick Stevens: =>Alexander Dalloz wrote: =>> Am Mi, den 18.05.2005 schrieb linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx um 0:55: =>> =>> =>> > My brain is fried. I know there is a simple answer to this but I'm =>> > drawing a blank. I want to run a script against the contents of a =>> > text file. The text file is just my users' first name, middle initial =>> > and last name like this: =>> > =>> > John A Smith =>> > Mary P James =>> > Sally R Jones =>> > Fred Q Davis =>> > =>> > What I want to do is for each user in this file, run a script. I =>> > tried to do this: =>> > =>> > for i in `cat textfile`; do =>> > myscript.sh $i =>> > done =>> > =>> > I expect this to run like this: =>> > =>> > myscript.sh John A Smith =>> > myscript.sh Mary P James =>> > myscript.sh Sally R Jones =>> > myscript.sh Fred Q Davis => =>I have another solution. Change the script (let's call it "fred"): => => while read i; do => myscript.sh $i => done => =>Then "cat textfile | ./fred" would accomplish the same thing. Why in the Wide World of Sports do people do stuff like that? ./fred < textfile No pipe, no extra process, no fuss. -- echo "Steven W. Orr" | cat | less | more | most | xargs echo
