I am on sun solaris 5.8

I have a script gen_file.ksh that takes in 5 parameters... Like

gen_file.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 param5

Is it possible for me to read another file, say param5_list.txt and read each line from that file
and run the above script that many times(as the number of lines found in the param5_list.txt)

In other words, if my param_list.txt has 3 different param5 values in 3 different lines like

123
456
789

I needed my script to run 3 times

gen_file.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 123
gen_file.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 456
gen_file.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 789

Any pointers on how this can be done would be great. Thanks

You can open "param_list.txt", loop over the entries and inside the loop you run your "gen_file.ksh" script. Simple shell variables should do the trick. Have you tried that? If so, where do you get stuck?

for param5 in `cat param5_list.txt` # space,tab,new line delimited
do
gen_file.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 $param5
done

Thanks folks.. it worked..(very similar to pdreyer's note)

cat param5_list.txt | while read Line
do
genscript.ksh param1 param2 param3 param4 $Line
done