I need suggestion on problem read a file line by line and do stuff

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

At first, give my best wish for all MOD and admins here. I"m learning bash shell program just for a month, not too much, not too little, but i must admire that i'm very bad at math and algorithm. :frowning:

I want to do this :
Read the content of a file line by line and at each line, ask me want to read next line or not, if not, press N - end, if yes, press Y - read next line

This is the content of file :

I love linux verymuch. I want to learn it
Bash shell is not hard but it make
me gonna crazy. Can any one help me
...

I very need suggestion, i know it very easy with somebody else but with me it's not easy to find out. :confused::confused:

2

Presented like that, it looks like homework... (Do you remember the rules?...)
If I were you I would start by writing on a paper what is to be done:
In other words the algorithm...
Then once satisfied with it translate it to shell script.
Only at this point if it is not satifactory should I ask what we think of the script my posting a thread, explaining us your frustration with your code

And sure you will have replies...

Courage!

3

Ooppss...Had to edit it...

So here are some tips

Use cat, while, read...

Then you'll probably encounter something weird like not being able to enter your choice of y/n so try searching about tty

4

Heres some hints:

This

for line in `cat /path/to/yourfile`; do
    echo $line
    {do something}
done

Then lookup the read command.