[surfnschultz]

How can I write a script that reads a long list of items and use one itme at a time to run a job with the line item in the file? Trying to delete a few hundred items and trying to automate it as much as possible. Not too happy if I have to do this by hand.

I know how to read a single item entered at the command line, not sure about a open read of a file with hundreds of items.


OK guru's the race to solution is on...

[surfnschultz]

exec 4<data.txt
while read each_line <$4
do
echo ${each_line}
done
exec 4<&-


This is what I got so far, but it is not working. It still waits for my input at the command line. If I type 1 it echo's 1 to the screen. I want ti to read my data.txt file which has in for testing purposes 1,10,20,30... to 50

Any more info would be helpful.

[surfnschultz]

Well here is what I used, kind of lame, but works for now.

While read line_by_line
do
echo $ {line_by_line}
done < data.txt


this works, I am stoked.