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# 1  
Old 10-27-2015
Read space in script
Hi All,

Please let me know how to read space between 2 words in script. It is reading only first chars ES,NZ. But after space it is not reading next 3 chars.

Code:
 ES LPI 
 NZ GBL 
 FR LPI 
 DK LPI
  
 for v_sob_cntry_cd in `cat /shared/set_of_books_cntry_cd_list.lst`
 do 
 Fname=`echo "GEOR_"$v_sob_cntry_cd"_T_AND_L.dat"`
 RC=$?

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 10-27-2015
You have not told us which OS, or shell so......
Manually longhand, using OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal...
Code:
Last login: Tue Oct 27 09:06:03 on console
AMIGA:barrywalker~> echo ' ES LPI 
>  NZ GBL 
>  FR LPI 
>  DK LPI' > /tmp/file
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cat /tmp/file
 ES LPI 
 NZ GBL 
 FR LPI 
 DK LPI
AMIGA:barrywalker~> while read line
> do
> line=( $line )
> echo "${line[0]} , ${line[1]} ."
> done < /tmp/file
ES , LPI .
NZ , GBL .
FR , LPI .
DK , LPI .
AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

# 3  
Old 10-27-2015
I'm somewhat unsure what you mean by "read space between 2 words". Your code snippet doesn't read anything but produces a list of values that the for loop variable then assumes. Completing your code and echoing $Fname in the loop, I get
Code:
GEOR_ES_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_NZ_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_GBL_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_FR_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_DK_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat

Isn't that what you'd expect?

Guessing that you are using some Bourne shell descendant, IFS - which is used to split an input line into words - is set to "<space><TAB><newline>" by default. So it wouldn't occur neither in a for loop value list nor in a while read loop.
# 4  
Old 10-27-2015
I am looking the below output. Also I am using the below unix version
Code:
bash-4.1$ uname -a
Linux ad2222aa 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 19 12:09:25 EST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 GEOR_ES_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_NZ_GBL_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_FR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_DK_LPI_T_AND_L.dat

# 5  
Old 10-27-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by kiranparsha
I am looking the below output. Also I am using the below unix version
Code:
bash-4.1$ uname -a
Linux ad2222aa 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 19 12:09:25 EST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 GEOR_ES_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_NZ_GBL_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_FR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_DK_LPI_T_AND_L.dat

Hello kiranparsha,

Considering your Input_file is as follows.
Code:
 cat Input_file
 ES LPI
 NZ GBL
 FR LPI
 DK LPI

Then following code may help you to achieve as per your posted output.
Code:
awk '{print "GEOR" OFS $1 OFS $2 OFS "T_AND_L.dat"}' OFS="_"  Input_file

Output will be as follows.
Code:
GEOR_ES_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_NZ_GBL_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_FR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_DK_LPI_T_AND_L.dat

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 6  
Old 10-27-2015
How about
Code:
while read line; do echo "GEOR${line// /_}T_AND_L.dat"; done < file
GEOR_ES_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_NZ_GBL_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_FR_LPI_T_AND_L.dat
GEOR_DK_LPIT_AND_L.dat

This strongly depends on the spaces as given in post#1!
# 7  
Old 10-27-2015
Thanks Rudic . Its working fine.
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