How to read sequentially from a file in SH (not KSH)

[Jeffrey B. McGough]

In article <1991Apr27.012336.2732 at shibaya.lonestar.org> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>SH does not support this (at least not the one I have).  I have tried:
>
>while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
>  echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>done

This can be done by...

#! /bin/sh

FILENAME="/foo/bar"

while read VAR1 VAR2
do
{
	echo "$VAR1 VAR2"
}
done < "$FILENAME"

Hope this helps... 
The double quotes are my version of paranoia

I user stuff like this for various admin
tasks all the time...


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Jeffrey B. McGough
WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator                    (mcgough at wrdis01.af.mil)