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11-09-2005

TheCrunge

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Processing a text file

A file contains one name per line, such as:

Code:

john doe
jack bruce
nancy smith
sam riley

When I 'cat' the file, the white space is treated as a new line. For example

Code:

list=`(cat /path/to/file.txt)`
for items in $list
do
echo $items
done

I get:

Code:

john 
doe
jack 
bruce
nancy 
smith
sam 
riley

How can I get each line to be echoed (so the full names are on their own line), not each item separated by whitespace?

Thanks

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11-09-2005

vino

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Join Date: Feb 2005

Location: Bangalore, India

Posts: 2,798

Code:

while read name
do
echo $name
done < /path/to/file

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