<quote who="Howard Lowndes">
> 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.:(
# cat the file to a while loop
# while loops on the command 'read i'
# which reads a line-entry from stdin into the variable $i
# while finishes when read returns an error
cat filename | while read i
do
echo $i;
done
- Jeff
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