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I have a file that I want to read each record, do some stuff and write a new file.
I get as far as:

file=`cat data.txt`
for data in "$file"
do
echo "Record is: $data"
done

The output of this is not what I was expecting:

Record is: This is record one
This is record two
This is record three
and so on....

I want to see:
Record is: This is record one
Record is: This is record two
Record is: This is record three

I've been away from coding for awhile and am alittle rusty. I think I must be missing a newline somewhere.....

Thanks,

Sincerely braindead!

Just change your script to this:

for data in `cat data.txt`
do
echo "Record is: $data"
done

What you were doing was catting the whole file to the variable 'file'.... then the for loop only had one condition (there's only one $file), if you cat the file as part of the for loop criteria as I've done above you'll get your line by line behaviour as requested.

You can do like this:

cat data.txt | while read F
do
echo "Record Is : "$F;
done;

Inside while your F is your string.

Thanks to all.....

I now have a couple different ways of going about it.