Run text file as commands in Bash

Question

If I have a text file with a separate command on each line how would I make terminal run each line as a command? I just don\'t want to have to copy and paste 1 line at a tim

Answer 1

You can use something like this:

for i in `cat foo.txt`
do
    sudo $i
done

Though if the commands have arguments (i.e. there is whitespace in the lines) you may have to monkey around with that a bit to protect the whitepace so that the whole string is seen by sudo as a command. But it gives you an idea on how to start.