Re: [plug] readiing a line from a file and putting that in a variable

[Brian Baquiran]

> Chris G Haravata wrote:
> 
> haba ng subject line ano?  :)
> 
> anyway, the problem is this:  i need to create a script which will
> automatically create user home directories from a file.  but i need to
> read the file first from within the script.  the file looks like the
> ff:
> 
> /home/2000/abc-123455
> /home/1995/def-678901
> /home/2001/ghi-234567
> <etc until 1125 lines later>
> 
> problem is:  is there a command to use which will read each line of
> the file and put the contents of that line in a variable?

#!/bin/bash
for SOMEVAR in `cat somefile.txt`; do echo $SOMEVAR; done

# This will iterate over the lines in somefile.txt

# Brian
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