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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with file editing while keeping file format intact Post 302482115 by Scrutinizer on Monday 20th of December 2010 04:37:47 PM
Old 12-20-2010
The problem is in echo $LINE. You need to use:
Code:
echo "$LINE"

to keep spacing intact.

But: you do not need to read line by line as sed can do all that in one go (sed '...' file)

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