touch file.txt
NBARRAY=`awk '{print $1}' n_list.txt`

first=`awk 'NR==1 {print $1}' n_list.txt`


for nb in $nb_array
do 
  echo -n "X" >> file.txt
  ((ITERATIONLENGTH++))
done

echo "The iteration length is $ITERATIONLENGTH"
echo "The NBARRAY is $NBARRAY"
