chloe K wrote: > Hi > > I have a file. list.txt (two columns) > > column1 column2 name address > > > I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg: > > Dear: Chloe Address: CA > > Can I use this > > for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt > > Thank you for your help > #!/bin/sh while read NAME ADDRESS do sed -e"s/Chloe/$NAME/" -e"s/CA/$ADDRESS/" <letter.txt>$NAME.letter.txt done <list.txt Seems sort of fragile in that the name field can't have spaces. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos