Shell Programming and Scripting

I was thinking about his specific issue in which he had a file of path names. After taking a look at my reply, someone could look at my example read the comments and think otherwise.

Example:

file: a.txt contents:

line 1: "Hello I did not mention this\n"
line 2: "In orig message\n"

for readline in `cat a.txt`
do
echo $readline
exit
done

Script returns --> Hello

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

while IFS= read line
do

   echo "line->[${line}]"

done < a.txt