Hi -- Can't seem to figure out how to make this BASH script do what I would like it to do:
I have 2 files: file A: Name of place 1 Name of place 2 ... file B: Name of place 1 [tab] code1 Name of place 1 [tab] code1 ... The "Name of place" values often have spaces in them, which seems to be confusing a for loop in bash: running: for this_quadname in `cat file_a`; do echo grep -i "$this_quadname" file_b ; done produces this: grep -i 'Name' file_b grep -i 'of' file_b grep -i 'place' file_b ...so it would seem that the for loop is iterating over both spaces AND newlines in the `cat file_a` expression... is there any way to make bash only iterate over the newline characters? thanks in advance for any ideas! PS I am merely trying to implement a simple many-to-one join on 2 text files based on a common key, which is the first column in each file... however the spaces in the keys are messing up the conventional 'join' program... Dylan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
