Tokenized Read in Bash

I wanted to read a file, take each line, print the first column (tab-delimited) and then run my unixtime program on the second column. Here's a nice way to do that.

````

while read -ra line;do
    echo ${line[0]} $(unixtime ${line[1]})
    done < thefile.tsv

```

This is accomplished using the "-ra" flag to read. It will place each line in $line, but it will tokenize it. Just want I wanted to do.

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