Domolith

I realize this is a very basic issue, but when searching online I found a dearth of information regarding reading a text file line by line using a shell script. So below I have included the basic code you need.

#!/bin/bash
#skeleton code for reading a file line by line

#fill variable “thefile” with the name and path of the file you want to read line by line
thefile=/home/var/nameoffileyouwanttoprocess

# the loop below pipes the output of the file into a variable ($line) line by line
cat $thefile | while read line
do
echo $line #placeholder command to make sure everything is groovy
done

Hopefully this helps some people!