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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading a single character from each line of the file Post 302479597 by methyl on Saturday 11th of December 2010 06:46:51 PM
Old 12-11-2010
Quote:
while read line ; do
k=`echo $line|cut -c 26`
if [ $k = "X" ] ; then
echo "Character at the row was X"
fi
done < $input_file

Try quotes round string variables.
Code:
while read line ; do
        k=`echo "${line}"|cut -c 26`
        if [ "${k}" = "X" ] ; then
                echo "Character at the row was X"
        fi
done < $input_file

 

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