Selecting an entire line in a text file - insteed of the individual wo 1

[Larshg]

Hi

I have a text file that looks something like this
[23][<1][CRITICAL][unixprocexists.sh /usr/sbin/xntpd][10][][1][Process /usr/sbin/xntpd not running.]
[24][<1][CRITICAL][unixprocexists.sh sendmail][10][][1][Process sendmail not running.]

I want run throu the file one line at the time, seleting the entyre line


If I do something like this
for item in `cat /ovchk.cfg`
do
echo $item
done

Then the $item is the individual words - I would like it to be the intire line.

Thanks
Larshg

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:
while read item
do
echo "$item"
done < /ovchk.cfg

Hope This Help, PH.
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[olded]

Hi:

Use the following loop:

while read line
do
echo $line
done < data.file

Regards,


Ed

 

[Larshg]

Thanks

I've been looking for this for a while(it used to be a bit more messy seperating it and reconising the variables)

/Larshg