Because of field splitting, this will loop over words, not lines.
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Originally Posted by crystal_pup
change the for code as follows :-
This doesn't even read the file. It merely echoes the file name, possibly breaking it into pieces if it contains whitespace, then echoes the pieces of the file name. Not a single line of the file's contents is read.
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Originally Posted by anbu23
This won't loop over the lines of the file. The entire file's contents will be assigned en masse to i and the loop will iterate at most once (if the file is empty, it won't iterate at all). A functional equivalent:
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Originally Posted by pamu
Use while loop instead of for lop..
By far the best suggestion, but it's still inadequate for arbitrary text ("arbitrary" being the operative word).
To preserve leading and trailing whitespace, IFS should be unset in read's environment.
To prevent backslashes from being treated specially, read's raw mode should be used.
echo is unsuitable for printing arbitrary text. echo does not support -- to signal the end of option processing. If the arbitrary text looks like a valid option, the output will be mangled. printf should be used instead.
Finally, $data should be quoted to preserve its whitespace.
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Alister
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