I see what you're saying. That's interesting about cat, thanks for the heads up.
while read line do { echo $line > /dev/null && echo $line "PASSED" || echo $line "FAILED" } >> $RESULTS done < $FILE exit 0 This does the same thing, but seems to be more streamline... cleaner. Those are some useful points for future reference. Thanks again. Matthew -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Taking-input-line-by-line-from-a-config-file-in-Bash-tp14575394p14593790.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.