Question

I have a text file containing the following information below. I need to loop through this text file (count.txt) and assign each of these numbers a variable, doesn’t matter what name the variable is given. Is this possible?

4552  856
2070  298
1993  749
4774  248
2818  720
7912  1204
55    16
2     2
5     3
74    19
7310  1635
278   87
88    36
53    11
1081  252
1409  344
176   120
3219  1052
401   83
5008  1026
1885  276
13    9
1     1
11    5
5584  1586
10623 2635
27    11
39    5
310   178
1742  713
5     4
14    7
3     2

Answer 1

Yes, try doing this :

while read a b; do echo "$a $b"; done < count.txt

If you want to keep all records :

array=( $(<count.txt) )
printf '%s\n' ${array[@]}