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On 6/7/06, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I use the output of catting a file as the variable in a for-then
loop, the output of cat is broken along all spaces. So, a line in a
file like:
71.112.211.167 - - [01/Jun/2006:00:03:06 -0700] "GET
/BENBRYAN-NEIL-BENB-RYAN-IMPACTENGINE/44/44211E9A-8412-61EC-E6F2-CC89F84887F6/gallery/image/9844/image.swf
HTTP/1.1" 200 4151 "-"
when called out like:
for i in $(cat /tmp/test.log); do echo $i; done
Why, and how do I keep the line whole?
Try this:
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for i in $(cat /tmp/test.log); do echo "$i"; done
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and if that doesn't work try a shell script like this:
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#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\t\n' #get rid of the space in the IFS variable
for i in $(cat /tmp/test.log)
do
echo $i
done
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And if that doesn't work, you can always try this (this works for me
on the really stripped down shells):
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#!/bin/bash
IFS="
" # this is a linebreak in quotation marks
for i in $(cat /tmp/test.log)
do
echo $i
done
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Menachem
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