SUMMARY: parsing text file in KSH

thanks for all the replies to the question, here is the answer (it was to
use "read")


cat $FILE | while read ONE TWO THREE
do
    echo $ONE $TWO $THREE
done


>This is probably an easy question so go ahead and blast me with you emails
>about too easy a question.
>
>
>
>I have a text file that looks like this:
>
>a     b     c
>d     e     f
>g     h     i
>
>
>in korn shell i want create a loop to parse this file so that for each
loop
>i read one line and assign the 3 columns to variables,
>so in the first loop i want the variables to equal:
>
>ONE=a       TWO=b       THREE=c
>
>the second loop will have the vaules:
>
>ONE=d       TWO=e       THREE=f
>
>the 3rd loop will assign the values:
>
>ONE=g       TWO=h       THREE=i
>
>I only want to do this in korn shell, i tried awk and got close but no
>cigar.
>
>thanks in advance,
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