How do I iterate through each line of a text file with Bash?
With this script:
echo \"Start!\"
for p in (peptides.txt)
do
echo \"${p}\"
done
One way to do it is:
while read p; do
echo "$p"
done
As pointed out in the comments, this has the side effects of trimming leading whitespace, interpreting backslash sequences, and skipping the last line if it's missing a terminating linefeed. If these are concerns, you can do:
while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ]
do
printf '%s\n' "$p"
done < peptides.txt
Exceptionally, if the loop body may read from standard input, you can open the file using a different file descriptor:
while read -u 10 p; do
...
done 10
Here, 10 is just an arbitrary number (different from 0, 1, 2).