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how to read a text file line by line using Korn Shell

Aug 14th, 2002 10:58
Allan Caetano, Jim Snyder, Farouk Kadri,

#!/bin/ksh
while read line_by_line
do
      echo ${line_by_line}
done < myfile.txt

A slightly more complicated, but more flexible, version:

#!/bin/ksh

exec 4<yourfile.txt
while read each_line <&4
do
    print ${each_line}
done
exec 4<&-