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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell replacing space with line breaks Post 302309291 by giannicello on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 01:57:40 PM
Old 04-21-2009
I'd use a while loop...for example:

IFS=":"
while read line; do
echo $line
done <servername.lpp
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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	      -D   Ignore directory components in file name comparisons.

	      -h   Display a short help message and exit.

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