question about about Bourne Shell programming

I am new to Linux programming. I would like to write a Bourne shell script and it is invoked as follows

Code:

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script1 <classList>
for example
        script1 /A/B/list
<classList> is the full path name of a list of students in a class.
Each line is of the form <loginId> whitespace <name>.  For example,the file may look like this
cs123456    David  A. Smith
cs234567    Mark Jones
etc.

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Can anybody help me out.

You have described just about nothing.

You want a shell script that is passed the path to a file, and you have described what the file looks like.

So... the $64 question is, what is this script supposed to do?

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