Shell script

[Garrett Goebel]

brad wrote:
>
> I have a tab delimited list of usernames and passwords that
> I need to run a set of system commands on.  I was thinking
> maybe I could build a for loop and assign the first entry
> on the line as $x and the second entry on the line as $y.
> Is this possible?  Or am I going to have to use sed or awk?

Check out:
http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/20031104/command-line-options.pdf

perl -l -n -a -Ft -e 'print "col1: $F[0], col2:$F[1]n"' filename

The above will verbosely print the first 2 columns for every line in
filename.

You could use backticks to call a series of system commands.

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