Reading a file more than once in a shell script

From: Bernie (bpw4h_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: 26 Jul 2004 15:58:09 -0700

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to read in a file more than once in
a shell script. I'm not sure how else to explain it, so it might be
easier to understand if you look at the script:

for a in 1 2 3 4
do
  while read -r INPUT_LINE
  do
    <commands>
  done < ${SOURCE_FILE}
done

This seems to be giving me some problems that I can quite figure out
how to solve. After the first read through of the SOURCE_FILE, I
basically want to start over and read it again. Is there a way to
"reset" the SOURCE_FILE? Running the above script gives me one good
output, and then the rest of the output is incorrect.

Thanks.
Bernie

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