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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cat file problem Post 40974 by bensky on Friday 26th of September 2003 07:36:59 AM
Old 09-26-2003
cat file problem
Hi,

I wnat to read a fiel line by line and store each line in a variabel, so I made a for loop:


for i in `cat file` ; do
#do sth.

done;

The problem is, that in the file, there are lines with only asterisks like this
**************************************************************************************************

When I read this line, then not the asteriks are stored in $i, but in $i is the content of ls line by line is in my variabel $i.

How can I solve this??

Thx

Ben sky
 

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NAME

       line - read one line

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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