UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

"ONE|TWO|FIVE|THREE|FOUR|SIX~SEVEN~EIGHT" "NINE"

for TESTING in $(cat TEST.tmp)
do
 FIRSTID=$(echo -e "${TESTING}")
echo -e "$FIRSTID" >> TESTING.txt
done

"ONE|TWO|FIVE|THREE|FOUR|SIX~SEVEN~EIGHT"
"NINE"

# subshell starts
(
# split on NL only
IFS="
"
for TESTING in $(cat TEST.tmp); do echo "$TESTING"; done
)
# subshell ended, IFS is default again.

while read line
do
  echo "$line"
done < TEST.tmp

while read word1 word2
do
  echo "word1=$word1 word2=$word2"
done < TEST.tmp

for TESTING in $(<TEST.tmp); do
        FIRSTID=$(echo -e "$TESTING")
        echo -ne "$FIRSTID"
done > TESTING.txt

for TESTING in "$(cat TEST.tmp)"
do
FIRSTID=$(echo -e "${TESTING}")
echo -e "$FIRSTID"
done >> TESTING.txt