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# 1  
Old 11-30-2006
Put content of file into variables
How to put a line of strings (with some white spaces in between) from a file into variables?

I have tried the following codes. However, the content is cut by space (not by line)


for i in `cat ${source_file}`
do
echo $i
done


Please comment. Thanks.
# 2  
Old 11-30-2006
IFS=""
for i in `cat ${source_file}`
do
echo $i
done

John Arackal
# 3  
Old 12-01-2006
Here is a solution without changing the IFS and getting rid of UUOC.

Code:
while read line
do
  echo "$line"
done < ${source_file}

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