personball@vostro:SHELL$cat subshelltest.sh #!/bin/bash count=0 echo $$ sed -e '/^#/d' ipfile|while read line do let "count=count+1" echo "$$ $count $line" done personball@vostro:SHELL$./subshelltest.sh 14365 14365 1 192.168.0.1 14365 2 192.168.0.2 14365 3 192.168.0.3 14365 4 192.168.0.4 personball@vostro:SHELL$