On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0530, Anil Gupte/k.e.e.n., inc. wrote: > BlankIs there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text > file, loop through each line and parse the line of text. while read line do echo "processing line: $line" done < input_text_file -- "Artificial intelligence makes mistakes too, only faster." -- Larry Wall Rick Pasotto rick@niof.net http://www.niof.net