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 $i
done
Remember that, by default, bash thinks spaces separate fields. You
could add a couple of lines such as:
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'
to the beginning of your script to change the field separator to just
newline (by default, it's "<space><tab><newline>"). Don't forget to
clean that up via:
IFS=$OLDIFS
at the end of the script (not really necessary, but one should clean up
after oneself).
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