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Subject: Re: More of a scripting question I guess.
From: "Jim C." <notjames@snafu.concon.homeip.net>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 22:59, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Apr 17), Taylor Dondich said:
> > I've got a list of e-mail addresses in a text file.  I'd like to
> > process a command on EACH of those addresses with a program on my BSD
> > box.  I don't know a lick or two or shell programming (I'd think you
> > can get it done with this).
> 
> cat file.txt | while read address ; do
>   somecommand $address
> done
> 
A less resource intensive way (albeit not much less)

while read line;do
    process $line
done < file,txt

- Jim

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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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