On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:42:21AM -0800, yitzle wrote:
> How do I loop through the lines of a file when the lines have a tab in them?
> When I quote the cat operator, it reads the entire file at once.
> When I do not quote, each tab seperated item is treated as a new item.
> How do I make it seperate items by newline only?
> -- CODE --
> fileIn="blah"
> for i in "$(cat $fileIn)"
> do
> echo $i
> echo
> done
Don't use cat. Read the contents of the file directly with "read".
fileIn="blah"
while read i
do
echo "$i"
echo
done < "$fileIn"
--
Mike Stroyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
