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Old 04-06-2005
Read file - korn shell
Hello!!


I'm want to read each line of a file.
I'm doing a cut command, using \n - linefeed as delimeter and "list" as my file.


cut -f1 -d"\n" -s < list


Changing the file, putting spaces and doing cut -f1 -d" " -s < list it works, but with linefeed nothing is returned.



Thanks in advance!!!
# 2  
Old 04-06-2005
cat reads a file just fine.

Why are you using cut to read a file?
# 3  
Old 04-06-2005
Well I'm in a script and this list file is a result of a ls, with filenames in each line. I need them to do a command with each one.
Is it possible to read one line with cat command in a script and return it to a variable?
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Old 04-06-2005
You can use

Code:
for file in `ls <path>`; do
<run your command here using $file as the filename>
done

# 5  
Old 04-06-2005
12 Ways to Parse A File
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Old 04-06-2005
Thank you very much!!!

Smilie
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