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[Jason Clinton]

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Jason Clinton wrote:
| brad wrote:
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| | 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?
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| You can enter this at the command line if the Ruby interpreter is
| installed:
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| ruby -e "File.open("sourcefile").each_line { |line| system("command | #{$1} #{$2}") if 
/(.*)t(.*)/=~line }"

Actually, it can be much shorter:

$  ruby -ne 'system("command #$1 #$2") if /(.*)t(.*)/' sourcefile

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