Read columns from file into separate variables

Question

I need to read the following input into separate columns as variables? input.txt

b73_chr10   w22_chr9
w22_chr7    w22_chr10
w22_chr8    w22_chr6

I have written the following command;but I guess it is not correct.

value1=$(echo $line| awk -F\ '{print $1}' input.txt)
value2=$(echo $line| awk -F\ '{print $2}' input.txt)

Answer 1

You can use the read shell builtin:

while IFS=" " read -r value1 value2 remainder
do
    ...
done < "input.txt"

Extra fields, if any, will appear in 'remainder'. The shell's default IFS (inter-field-seperator) consisting of white space characters will be used to split each line into its component fields.