Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Folks,

I am trying to read input from single line from a file and pass the read variable to one of the commands. However when I run the script it keeps the variable to be empty. I can however echo the variable ( but why it is empty when it goes to the command).

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bhadu

::Script::
cat "file" | read line
echo $line
echo "bhadu"

=====
-> sh -x locfileinput
+ cat file
+ read line
+ echo


+ echo

+ echo bhadu
bhadu

Code:

read line <<< `cat file`

or simply

Code:

line=`cat file`

What should I do if I want to read the file line by line ?

It seems
read line <<< `cat file` will copy entire file into line ? how do i then parse it line by line ?

If you want to read file line by line, AWK is your first option.

What is is you file? if ist a string per line:

Code:

 for line in $(cat file);do echo " Line: " $line;done

Code:

while read Line
do
   echo "$Line"
done <file

Reading again you post...
If your file has only a single line, what don't you initialize your variable immediately then?
like

Code:

LINE=$(< file)