Re: [vox-tech] BASH: ignore space in for loop

[Ken Herron]

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
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 "$this_quadname" file_b ; 
done 
    while read pattern
    do
        grep -i "$pattern" file_b
    done < file_a
or
    cat file_a | while read pattern
    do
        grep -i "$pattern" file_b
    done

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...
You should be able to specify the field separator using join's -t 
option...?
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