First post, so I hope someone can help me with this weirdness
I have a number files with some rows of information I want to extract, at the same time I want to add to a string some details from the file. I have found two different ways of looping over rows in a file, but one method doesn't let me concatenarte strings and I don't know why....
The first method sets the IFS environmental variable. I don't really favour this method, but it works..
Code:
#!/bin/bash -
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS='
'
STE="cat"
for FILE in $( ls *-df | cut -f 4 -d / ); do
N=0
for LINE in $( cat $FILE ); do
N=$((N+1))
STE="$STE""dog"
done
done
echo "$STE" && exit
and produces:
catdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdo gdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdog
Method 2 uses "read" but prevents the concatenation of the string:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -
STE="cat"
for FILE in $( ls *-df | cut -f 4 -d / ); do
N=0
cat "$FILE" | while read LINE ; do
N=$((N+1))
STE="$STE""dog"
done
done
echo "$STE" && exit
and produces:
cat
Why is there a difference in the two methods? I would rather not be changing environmental variables and a simple loop is my preferred choice.
Thanks for your help, as this has been driving me crazy...
Stephen
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