[svlug] looping through a file line by line

[William R Ward]

John McDonnell writes:
>Evening all,
>
>I have a file that I want to split up line by line and I can't seem to do
>this properly. Googling isn't exactly helpful - it turns up many results,
>all with the search terms, but the S/N is pretty low.
>
>Anyway, how should I go abuot doing this? Using 'for' and eitehr cut or
>cat gives me each word.

Some kind of "perl -ne ...." command would do the trick.  What is it
you want to do to each line?

--Bill.

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