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 When I do not quote, each tab seperated item is treated as a new item.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]>