Date: 16 Oct 2020 13:53:02 -0400 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: vrwmiller@gmail.com Subject: Re: sh scripting question Message-ID: <20201016175302.CFDB2238515F@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <CAHzLAVGS_8kXtWoP3TfpTtz-zP57rpYEKrx3L089=eRRszsY-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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In article <CAHzLAVGS_8kXtWoP3TfpTtz-zP57rpYEKrx3L089=eRRszsY-Q@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:40 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>> I have a file ("files.list") with a list of filenames, similar to
>>
>> /path A/path B/FreeBSD is great.txt
>>
>> (note the embedded spaces)
This is the sensible answer. Messing with IFS is very fragile.
>$ while read line; do
>> echo $line
>> done < f.in
>/path A/path B/FreeBSD is great.txt
>/path T/path Q/FreeBSD rocks.txt
The "read" command can set more than one variable so
while read a b c
do
...
done < files.list
will set $a to the first word on each line, $b to the second, $c to
the rest of the line, which looks like what you wanted to do here.
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