On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:34, Ehud Karni wrote: I don't understand why all this voodoo is needed. If you have a list of spaced delimited values and want to use a for or while loop to read them, just fix $IFS locally (the default of IFS is tab or space or newline). You can make $IFS only be newline for the local process (IFS=something; your for loop here), and it will work.
If that is too much (man bash), then you can just use awk. I am not sure why the '/^[^[].+[^\n]$/' gives you what you want, since you have not said much about your input (except a hint that it may be in the shape of user = password). More information about your input is needed in order to formulate the right awk recipe for you. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener, CISO Tel-Aviv University CIT div. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 03-6406086 PGP key: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
