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Old 03-07-2012
Unable to read the first space of a record in while loop
I have a loop like
Code:
while read i
do
echo "$i"
.
.
.
done < tms.txt

The tms.txt contians data like
Code:
2008-02-03 00:00:00
<space>00:00:00
.
.
.
2010-02-03 10:54:32

The above while loop reads the second as 00:00:00 instead of <space>00:00:00.Smilie

Can some one suugest me a way in which I can read the first space also.??
# 2  
Old 03-07-2012
Try:
Code:
while IFS= read -r i

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# 3  
Old 03-07-2012
Thanks!!
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