Re: OT: shell scripting problem

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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.
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