read record from file

koti_rama · #1 (**permalink**) 08-07-2007

Hi all
I have file f1 like this:
Set AM/PM indicator to PM started|14155|
Generate Error Re|7|
Projected Cash Ba|741|
Roll System Date |4|
Projected Cash Balances started|2|
Process Mark To Market started|13429|
Process paydowns started|14189|
Process Fixed Inc|439|
Process Mark To M|2212|
Delete/Rename/Com|19|
.....

i want read entire record and display it using for loop(loop must).

i wrote script loke this:
for i in `cat f1`
do
echo $i
done

but here displaying word wise please help me on this.

Shell_Life · #2 (**permalink**) 08-07-2007

Code:

while read mLine
do
  echo 'Line = '${mLine}
done < input_file

Sukhendu Naskar · #3 (**permalink**) 08-07-2007

another way:

ter=`tty`
exec<file_name
while read line
do
echo $line
done
exec<"$ter"

Yogesh Sawant · #4 (**permalink**) 08-08-2007

in perl:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# read_file.pl
while (<>) {
  print $_;
}

and then run this script as:

Code:

perl read_file.pl file_to_read.txt

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