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Retaining Spaces while redirecting output
I need to merge data from more than one file and I am using
while read line_record do field1=`echo $line_record | awk -F "," '{ print $1 }'` echo $line_record >> $outFile if [ "$field1" = "qualifier1" ] then while read new_linerec do echo $new_linerec >> $outFile done < $File2 done < $File1 File 1 and File 2 contains indented data in it and after executing this code; the new file outFile contains all records with truncated spaces, tabs, etc... How can I retain the original format of data when copying it to output ? Last edited by skrakesh; 01-30-2007 at 04:23 PM. Reason: Reformatting issue 
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quotes...see the man page for your shell to understand the behaviour of echo and why it does this, and the section on quoting for why this makes a dfference.
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01-31-2007
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Quoting is just a part of the problem.
The read statement removes leading and trailing spaces (for standard Input Field Separator) : Code:
$ cat in.dat
1111111
55555555
8888888
2222222
1111111
$ cat in.ksh
while read line
do
echo "$line"
done < in.dat
$ in.ksh
1111111
55555555
8888888
2222222
1111111
$
Code:
$ cat in.ksh
while IFS= read line
do
echo "$line"
done < in.dat
$ in.ksh
1111111
55555555
8888888
2222222
1111111
$
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