bash loop help

exussum

Im Trying to loop though a file line by line and run some commands based on input.
Where im struggling is

while read line;do
echo $line;
done < item.txt

misses the first line each time. Is there something wrong with the command ?

Asad

@exussum That works fine for me and reads the first line.

That's exactly how it's supposed to be too.

while read LINE ; do
echo $LINE
done < my.file

exussum

exussum@exussumuk:~$ cat item.txt
13358
13359exussum@exussumuk:~$ bash test.sh
13358

is what i get. cat shows item.txt having 2 lines

looking at it now, it seems the item.txt is broken.

Asad

@exussum Try this..

for LINE in $(cat item.txt) ; do
echo $LINE
done

BluBoy

something like this should work as well...

cat item.txt | while read LINE; do
echo $LINE
done < my.file