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AMIGA:amiga~> echo 'hari,corporationbank,2234356,syndicate                                      
> ravi,indian bank,4567900000000,indianbank,accese                
> raju,statebank of hyderabad,565866666666666,pause' > /tmp/txt
AMIGA:amiga~> while read -r LINE; do echo $LINE; done < /tmp/txt > /tmp/text
AMIGA:amiga~> # Use hexdump to show removal of trailing spaces...
AMIGA:amiga~> hexdump -C /tmp/text
00000000  68 61 72 69 2c 63 6f 72  70 6f 72 61 74 69 6f 6e  |hari,corporation|
00000010  62 61 6e 6b 2c 32 32 33  34 33 35 36 2c 73 79 6e  |bank,2234356,syn|
00000020  64 69 63 61 74 65 0a 72  61 76 69 2c 69 6e 64 69  |dicate.ravi,indi|
00000030  61 6e 20 62 61 6e 6b 2c  34 35 36 37 39 30 30 30  |an bank,45679000|
00000040  30 30 30 30 30 2c 69 6e  64 69 61 6e 62 61 6e 6b  |00000,indianbank|
00000050  2c 61 63 63 65 73 65 0a  72 61 6a 75 2c 73 74 61  |,accese.raju,sta|
00000060  74 65 62 61 6e 6b 20 6f  66 20 68 79 64 65 72 61  |tebank of hydera|
00000070  62 61 64 2c 35 36 35 38  36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36  |bad,565866666666|
00000080  36 36 36 2c 70 61 75 73  65 0a                    |666,pause.|
0000008a
AMIGA:amiga~> cat /tmp/text
hari,corporationbank,2234356,syndicate
ravi,indian bank,4567900000000,indianbank,accese
raju,statebank of hyderabad,565866666666666,pause
AMIGA:amiga~> _

(
# a sub shell limits the scope of the following set command
set -f # disable glob expansion in command arguments
while read line
do
  printf "%s\n" $line
done < infile > outfile
)