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Old 08-06-2010
Bug Help in reading a cv file in bash
Hi All,

I am trying to read a .csv file which has some 6 columns.

Eg: samp.csv

one, two, three, four
six, seven, eight, nine

I used the following code,
Code:
for line in `cat samp.csv`
do
   echo "$line"
done

It displays every comma seperated values in each line like,

one,
two,
three, etc.,

But what my expected output is,

one, two, three, four
six, seven, eight, nine

Thanks in advance. Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 08-06-2010 at 04:24 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 08-06-2010
This is Useless Use of Cat, read the lines like this:

Code:
while read line
do
  echo "$line"
done < samp.csv

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