LKBEN10949: Howto do a command on every line in a textfile with bash

Symptom

You have to automate something

Cause

none

Solution

You can use a simple script to read every line and do something with it.

#/bin/bash

for i in `cat /tmp/liste.txt`

do

echo $i

done

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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