Creating file contents using contents of another file

Shell Programming and Scripting
21

Hi,

I have realised that this script will create one output file which is the last entry in the input file. However, I need to create one �utput file for each line. The names of the output file need to include the ID. How can I do this?

22

See the pattern below.

IFS=;
while read continent country city id address date
do
	ID=$id
	CONTINENT=$continent
	COUNTRY=$country
	CITY=$city
             DATE=$date
	header $ID
	body1 $CONTINENT $ID
done < $INPUTFILE

function header {
             OUTPUTFILE="$OUTPUTFILE.$1"
	echo "$HEADER" > $OUTPUTFILE
	echo "$1" >> $OUTPUTFILE
	echo "\">" >> $OUTPUTFILE
}
function body1 {
             OUTPUTFILE="$OUTPUTFILE.$2"
	echo "$1" >>$OUTPUTFILE
	echo "$continent" >>$OUTPUTFILE
	echo "</info1>" >>$OUTPUTFILE
}

$@ will change to $1 and $2, whereever appropriate.