tty3 [greg$~/testing] blah blah #!/bin/sh while read line do echo "$line" done < "$1" tty3 [greg$~/testing] edit blah #added a second "read" no change. tty3 [greg$~/testing] tty3 [greg$~/testing] blah blah #!/bin/sh while read line do echo "$line" read -n1 -p' ' next one < "$1" tty3 [greg$~/testing]