You need to properly quote your variables when you echo them, otherwise the shell will trim whitespace. I'd advise against using echo at all, though.
But here's how to quote properly. To be a little bit on the safe side, I also zap IFS; I don't believe it's strictly necessary here, but it's a technique you should be aware of.
Code:
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS='
' # just a newline, in single quotes
while read data
do
MSISDN="`echo "$data" | cut -c1-10`"
HOUR="`echo "$data" | cut -c11-16`"
ID_SA_SOURCE="`echo "$data" | cut -c17-35`"
ID_SA_DEST="`echo "$data" | cut -c36-54`"
done < $TRACKING_LOGDIR/$listdata
IFS=$OLDIFS
Having that out of the way, how about something like this?
Code:
awk '{ OFS=":"; print substr($0, 1, 10), substr($0, 11, 16),
substr($0, 17, 35), substr($0, 17, 35) }' $TRACKING_LOGDIR/$listdata |
while IFS=: read MSISDN HOUR ID_SA_SOURCE ID_SA_DEST; do
echo "'$HOUR': All your '$ID_SA_SOURCE' are '$ID_SA_DEST' to '$MSISDN'"
done
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