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Old 04-11-2008
Of bash and whitespace...
Hmmm... Bash doesn't parse whitespace with a read.

Code:
lev@sys09:~$ read line; echo "$line"
 test
test

You can imagine what this does if you're using a shell script to read a list of unknown file names containing unknown spaces.

Code:
lev@sys09:~$ read word1 word2; echo "$word1,$word2"
123 456 789
123,456 789

Anyone have a solution for this?
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Old 04-11-2008
Change the value of $IFS temporarily.
# 3  
Old 04-13-2008
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Originally Posted by era
Change the value of $IFS temporarily.
Thank you. That worked perfectly. I owe you a beer. Smilie
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