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Old 11-09-2005
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
# 2  
Old 11-09-2005
Code:
while read name
do
echo $name
done < /path/to/file

 
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