How do you run a command for each line of a file?

Question

For example, right now I\'m using the following to change a couple of files whose Unix paths I wrote to a file:

cat file.txt | while read in; do chmod 755 \"         


        

Answer 1

Yes.

while read in; do chmod 755 "$in"; done < file.txt

This way you can avoid a cat process.

cat is almost always bad for a purpose such as this. You can read more about Useless Use of Cat.