i have this line

my,name,is,john

stored in a file d.sh and i wish to print the line as string..but im getting word by word...have tried this.........

for in $(cat $d.sh);
do
echo $i
done

but this is giving me
my
name
is
john

use a while loop

thanx a lot ghostdog that was straight forward really appreciate it!

if i have 2 files to compare the lines how do i do it with the While loop
say file 1 has
my name is john
file2
my name is jon
i want to compare if the lines in each file are the same
have tried

cat 'file.1' | while read line;
do
c=$line
cat 'file.2' | while read line
do
d=$line
if test "$c" != "$d"
then echo $c is different
fi
done
done

prints continously

if all you want is to compare lines in 2 files , you can use diff. check the diff man page

thanx mate i have been using the diff , cmp, comm and patch but with the files i was doing include an md5sum but still the outcome isnt true thus trying to do it manually with the while loop......if u get a chance just correct me in the While loop

you could just show some sample input files.

or add the Internal Field Seperator to ur For loop code

IFS=$'\n'