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Thanks for the reply.
I am comfortable with the first method you posted.

But I can't figure out how the second is supposed to work.IFS=$' \t\r\n' read < xf1

# ...for example I tried thing like...

Re:d003:/cust/home/dsdev>mail
From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Oct 7 10:45:03 2009
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
...Is that the message you want to get rid of?
Your mail is different than...

can you do:
~> whereis sendmail

Have you found where your mail spool is yet?
If you type
~> mail
The mail program may start and give a clue. (and a long list of messages)
Just type x to...

Hello,
I am writing a script to talk to my pop server.
All the lines returned from the server end with \r\n (0x0d 0x0a)
The read command trims the 0x0a and the line is left with 0x0d ending.
I...

The "standard syntax' is fine.
I had a feeling what I was trying to do was just plain wrong , but
there was a grain of uncertainty and I'm stubborn...
...like Dr. House's there! Nice effort.
I...

Hi,
I am fairly novice at bash but not bad at C and so wondered if a for loop could be done as shown below:#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter some strings , terminate with a single 'x':";
REPLY=;

#I am...