I have a file that has four values on each line and I'd like to give each column a variable name and then use those values in each step of a loop. In bash, I believe you could use a while loop to do this or possibly a cat command, but I am super new to programming and I'm having trouble decoding some of the online bash scripting guides. Thanks very much for your help, it's very much appreciated!
#!/bin/bash
for ((N=0; N<=5; N++))
do
AGE=$N
echo making basegrid "$AGE"Ma
(commands)
rotxyz file.xyz xlat xlon xdel > newfile.xyz
done
# and I'd like to read a data file that looks like this and use the data with my rotxyz program:
AGE xlat xlon xdel
AGE xlat xlon xdel
......