Read a file line by line assigning the value to a variable

Question

I have the following .txt file:

Marco
Paolo
Antonio

I want to read it line-by-line, and for each

Answer 1

If you need to process both the input file and user input (or anything else from stdin), then use the following solution:

#!/bin/bash
exec 3<"$1"
while IFS='' read -r -u 3 line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
    read -p "> $line (Press Enter to continue)"
done

Based on the accepted answer and on the bash-hackers redirection tutorial.

Here, we open the file descriptor 3 for the file passed as the script argument and tell read to use this descriptor as input (-u 3). Thus, we leave the default input descriptor (0) attached to a terminal or another input source, able to read user input.