Muchos.

/me slaps head with 4x2

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Humphreys wrote:

> do
>
> OLDIFS=$IFS
> IFS='
> '
>
> <do your stuff>
>
> IFS=$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
>

-- 
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

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