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akilesh raj
akilesh raj

Reputation: 674

Read line by line and write in another file shell script

I have a file called "test_file1". I want to read each line of this file and write it to another file called "test_file2". Both of these files are in the same directory.

I tried 

#!/bin/sh
# My first Script
echo "Hello World!"
file=$(<test_file1.txt)
echo "Test" >> test_file2.txt 
while IFS= read -r line;do
    echo -e "legendary" >> test_file2.txt
    echo "$line" >> test_file2.txt
done <"$file"
echo "completed"

The script writes "Test" into test_file2.txt but does not write 'legendary' or the lines in test_file1 into test_file2.

Can someone please help.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 34494

Answers (1)

DAXaholic
DAXaholic

Reputation: 35358

Just use the file directly instead of first reading it into an array; to do that change your
done <"$file" to done < "test_file1.txt"

#!/bin/sh
# My first Script
echo "Hello World!"
echo "Test" >> test_file2.txt 
while IFS= read -r line;do
    echo -e "legendary" >> test_file2.txt
    echo "$line" >> test_file2.txt
done < "test_file1.txt"
echo "completed"

Upvotes: 6

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