Question

I have a text stream which has n lines and each line is one word.

I would like to write something like a for loop that VAR gets at every iteration the i’th line (from line 1 until EOF) and to run a command on each.

Thanks!

Answer 1

In some cases the xargs command can be sufficient:

my_stream_generator | xargs -n1 my_command

This assumes that the way of passing the words from the stream to the command is by specifying that word as an argument for the command.

If this is not the case @aioobe’s suggestion might be more suitable for you.