Answer by Stan Graves for Looping through the content of a file in Bash

Option 1a: While loop: Single line at a time: Input redirection

#!/bin/bash
filename='peptides.txt'
echo Start
while read p; do 
    echo $p
done < $filename

Option 1b: While loop: Single line at a time:
Open the file, read from a file descriptor (in this case file descriptor #4).

#!/bin/bash
filename='peptides.txt'
exec 4<$filename
echo Start
while read -u4 p ; do
    echo $p
done