Am Mi, den 18.05.2005 schrieb linux whiz gmail com 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------