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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For Loop Field editing - without using "awk" Post 302608257 by Corona688 on Friday 16th of March 2012 03:58:16 PM
Old 03-16-2012
Using a 'for' loop to do this is a useless use of cat and useless use of backticks, precisely because of the reason you've discovered, among others -- it splits where it pleases, not on lines.

The shell's read builtin is much better suited. It can even split for you.

Code:
while read A B C
do
        echo "UPDATE $A SET $B='$C';
done < F1.txt

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