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# 1  
Old 06-18-2009
really basic for loop question
sorry for being dumb here, but is there a way my for loop can take an entire line of a file into consideration instead of each word in a line... ill explain

if i have a file like this

Code:
# cat list
serial: 23124
hostname: server1

and a script that does this

Code:
# cat list.sh 
#!/bin/sh

for n in `cat /tmp/list`
do
echo $n
done

My output when run is this

Code:
# ./list.sh 
serial:
23124
hostname:
server1

i would like it to give me

Code:
serial: 23124
hostname: server1

What am i doing wrong here ?

any help would be greatly appreciated
# 2  
Old 06-18-2009
Try this:
Code:
IFS="
"
while read line
do
        echo $line
done < list

You might want to save the old value of IFS and restore it after you're done.
# 3  
Old 06-18-2009
The IFS (input field separator) is set to whitespace characters by default (space, tab, newline). If you use the 'while read' combination, you can assign each line to a variable (basically just like pludi has shown), except you do not need to specify the IFS.

Code:
-bash-3.2$ cat test.txt | while read i; do echo $i; done;
serial: 23124
hostname: server1

# 4  
Old 06-18-2009
cat file | while read a b
do
echo $a $b
done
# 5  
Old 06-18-2009
ignore - deleted message
# 6  
Old 06-18-2009
Try this

for n in "`cat list`"
do
echo "$n"
done
# 7  
Old 06-18-2009
thank you all for your responses, i now have something to work with

cheers
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