nixCraft

Hi,
I need some help on scripting.
I am doing a simple echo of lines and words from a file and I also want to echo the number of lines and words to it.
Where can I get this help
A simple script I am using is
for i in `cat hostfile`
do
echo $i
done
And what I would like to do is something like this:
for i in `cat hostfile`
do
for j in ((j=1;j<=1000;j++))
do
echo $i
echo $j
done
Thanks a lot in advance

Dear Friend
Qus:-
I am doing a simple echo of lines and words from a file and I also want to echo the number of lines and words to it.

Ans:

# vi example.sh
#!/bin/bash
# read a file line by line
file=/file_path_for_count
x=0
lns=`wc -l $file`
y=`expr "$lns" : '\([0-9]*\)'`
****or**** use one of them y statement
y=`cat $file | wc -l `
while [ "$x" -lt "$y" ]
do
let x=x+1
head -n $x $file | tail -n 1
done
exit 0

Thanks Man

This definetly makes sense.

However this the scenerio.
Let say I have install 100 patches to a system (Sun Machine). And I am using patchadd command , so I would like to see the output of the patchadd command as well as the number of patches it has installed.

In other words count per line with the command

so the out put might look like this:

1 patch "xxxx001" has been installed
2 patch "xxxx002" has been installed
.
.
.
.
100 patch "xxx100" has been installed

so in other words not just echo of line but some command as well

Sincere apologies if I look like a fool but ....