Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:35:44 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: semi OT: sh scripting problem Message-ID: <18096.39488.530454.883753@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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(This is probably a FAQ, and I'll take a pointer (or even the magic words to identify the problem) instead of an answer.) Let's suppose I have a file FILE, with contents: foo bar grill baz If I do "cat FILE", everything comes out fine. If, however, I write a script: #!/bin/sh for i in `cat FILE` do . . . . done $i is set to foo bar grill baz Is there a way within the script - or, failing that, by modifying FILE - to not break at the whitespace? Robert Huff
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