Looping through text file input with sybase queries

I have a take a text file input and scan through each line.
the contents of each line become a variable which I need to use to run some 15-20 queries against a Sybase db. The the loop should read next line for execution of same queries against this new variable(new line)

How do I go around this. I am new to scripting and this seems a relatively easy Q. All suggestions are welcome.

We can get line by line from a input file as,

while read line; do

echo $line

done < <inputfile>


Example:

Inputfile
-------
ls
hostname
uname -a


while read line; do

echo $line | sh

done < inputfile

It will execute every commands using with shell there. To make this to be used on sybase queries then,

while read line; do

query $line | sh

done < inputfile

IF you try to use as, query $line it will not be executed. IT will only print the query and $line string there. We are executing combined informations again with | sh there.

HTH.

REgards
Muthukumar