Question

I’ve read this question about how to read n characters from a text file using bash. I would like to know how to read a word at a time from a file that looks like:

example text
example1 text1
example2 text2
example3 text3

Can anyone explain that to me, or show me an easy example?
Thanks!

Answer 1

The read command by default reads whole lines. So the solution is probably to read the whole line and then split it on whitespace with e.g. for:

#!/bin/sh

while read line; do
    for word in $line; do
        echo "word = '$word'"
    done
done <"myfile.txt"