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<do your stuff> IFS=$OLDIFS On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:02:04PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I want to process a text file a line at a time, but I want the entire line > to be assigned to a variable rather than each non-whitespace character > string in each line. Something like: > > for i in $(cat filename); do echo $i; done Which don't work.:( > > I've tried cat, grep, awk and am getting nowhere (after all it is Friday), > so [Subject:] > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people > Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com > "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me > Get rid of the Australian states. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
