On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:19:30PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: > bg image(cid:014e01c6ab29$652db160$6400a8c0@Aum) > 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. > Depending on what you want to do: man sed man awk Regardless of what you want to do: man perl -- Tony Terlecki lists@tonyterlecki.co.uk