File Handling in Shell Scripts [Bash]

Create a file

Following shell script can create the file to a directory. In this example, it creates a text file in current directory.

#!/bin/bash

echo "This is a text." > sample.txt

Reading a file

!/bin/bash
value=$(<sample.txt)
echo "$value"

Reading a file per line

#!/bin/bash

while read line; do

echo $line
 done < sample.txt