http://perl.about.com/od/perltutorials/a/readwritefiles.htm
you can get a lot of hits on google about
reading and writing files in perl or bash
From: Anil
Gupte [mailto:anil-list@icinema.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
7:50 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Read/Write files from a
script?
Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a
text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text.
Also, as I am in learning mode, is there a way to write text files
from a script?
Thanx,
Anil Gupte