Input file!

hy! How can I do so that my input to be a file.To read a file as input.thanks

[eggi]

Hey there,

How do you mean? Do you just want to read a file into a program or have the program read a file? Or something else.

while read x
do
   echo $x
done <input.thanks

If you could clarify, that would be cool.

Thanks,

Mike

I want to read a file as input.
I have to do this:
I have to read a file then to take the 2,4,6,8,.... rows and put them in onother file and then the same thing whit 1,3,5,...rows.

[eggi]

You can do this pretty simply with awk. Check these boards for a fairly recent post on (I think the title is roughly) "even and odd" columns. You should find about 6 different ways to do it there, some of which I submitted.

I think you should be all set after that :)

, mike