OT: shell scripting problem

[John Summerfied]

linux.whiz at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
> 
> Instead it runs like this:
<snip>


> How do I get this script to run correctly?

cat textfile | while read aline
	do myscript.sh $aline
	done



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Cheers
John

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