The following code read the contents of a text file
#!/bin/bash
filename='links.txt'
while read -r line
do
echo $line
done <"$filename"To read first five lines only
head -5 dinks.txt | while read a; do
echo $a;
doneRead five lines and then delete those lines
head -5 links.txt | while read a; do
echo $a;
done
sed -i "1,5 d" links.txt