semi OT: sh scripting problem

[Don Hinton]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 09:35:44 Robert Huff wrote:
> 	(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?

I'm sure someone will give you a more elegant solution, but short of using sed 
or awk (my preference), this might help:

$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh

myloop()
{
  while read line; do
   echo $line
  done
}

cat test.sh | myloop


hth...
don



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> 				Robert Huff
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