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

[Conor P. Cahill]

afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:

>while read VAR1 VAR2 < $FILENAME; do
>  echo $VAR1 $VAR2
>done

use:

	while read VAR1 VAR2; do
		echo $VAR1 $VAR2
	done < $FILENAME

or:
	cat $FILENAME |
	while read VAR1 VAR2; do
		echo $VAR1 $VAR2
	done

>but I keep reading the first line in the file over and over.  Nothing in

This is because the shell kept reopening the file every time it went to 
execute the read.

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