#!/bin/bash # Reading lines in /etc/fstab. File=/etc/fstab { read line1 read line2 } < $File echo "First line in $File is:" echo "$line1" echo echo "Second line in $File is:" echo "$line2" exit 0 # Now, how do you parse the separate fields of each line? # Hint: use awk, or . . . # . . . Hans-Joerg Diers suggests using the "set" Bash builtin.