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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:04:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <doug@safeport.com>
To:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sh script question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110142248230.23659-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011014201436.conrads@home.com>

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Like magic - thank you.

Do you know why it reads line-wise in this form?

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Conrad Sabatier wrote:

> 
> On 15-Oct-2001 doug@safeport.com wrote:
> > for Line in `cat ${FILE:-$1}`; do 
> >   echo $Line
> > done
> 
> I always use something like this:
> 
> while read Line
> do
>         echo $Line
> done < $FILE
> 
> -- 
> Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
> 
> Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the
> floor -- especially in the dark.
> 
> 

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