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# 1  
Old 08-14-2009
for cat help
Hi there,

I have the following problem. I have a csv file which looks like

Code:
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION HEAVY,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,VARIATION,ANY,ANY,None,'

but I do this
Code:
for ab in $(cat test.csv); do echo $ab; done

in the output it replaces the spaces with CR

Code:
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION
HEAVY,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,VARIATION,ANY,ANY,None,'

why is this happening?

I want to do at the end this
Code:
for ab in $(cat test.csv); do echo $ab; grep $ab file.csv; done

But the above problem results that grep output is wrong.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 08-14-2009
Hi.

If you want to process each line as a whole, then try using a while loop instead:

Code:
while read LINE; do
  echo $LINE
  grep "$LINE" file.csv
done < test.csv

It's not inserting a newline, the for is taking each white-space-separated field one at a time.
# 3  
Old 08-14-2009
or this may work..
Code:
grep -f test.csv file.csv

# 4  
Old 08-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
or this may work..
Code:
grep -f test.csv file.csv

No this doesn't work, I guess because it takes all the lines together as one pattern

---------- Post updated at 11:19 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:15 AM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Hi.

If you want to process each line as a whole, then try using a while loop instead:

Code:
while read LINE; do
  echo $LINE
  grep "$LINE" file.csv
done < test.csv

It's not inserting a newline, the for is taking each white-space-separated field one at a time.
This works great! Thanks
# 5  
Old 08-14-2009
Great! But for what you're trying to do, the grep option should also work. Try it with "grep -Ff" if just -f doesn't work:

Code:
> cat file1
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION HEAVY,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,VARIATION,ANY,ANY,None,'

> cat file2
'GI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION HEAVY,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,VARIATION,ANY,ANY,None,'

> grep -f file2 file1
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,EQUATION HEAVY,ANY,ANY,None,'
'AGI,ABJ,Y,Y,Y,None,VARIATION,ANY,ANY,None,

 
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