sh scripting question
John Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Fri Oct 16 17:53:10 UTC 2020
In article <CAHzLAVGS_8kXtWoP3TfpTtz-zP57rpYEKrx3L089=eRRszsY-Q at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:40 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff at 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.
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list