Hi

I need to get the contents of a text file into an executable command.
The text file might read:

iCal-1.5.2
iSync-1.4
iTunes4-4.2
MacOSXUpdate10.3.2-10.3.2

I need the command to read

softwareupdate -i iCal-1.5.2 iSync-1.4 iTunes4-4.2 etc ...

I can do it quite manually but need a script that will execute no matter how many entries are in the text file (there might be 1 or 20). The text of the file would vary each time also (different installs).
Thanks

A possible solution :

have never used the xargs command but it works a treat. At this stage I just needed the command to print not execute as I'm sitting on Linux and it needs to run on OS X. I modified it to read:

Installs=`cat /tmp/temp.txt | xargs echo`
echo "softwareupdate -i $Installs"

Much appreciate that as it was driving me batty !!