[ale] bash question

[Wandered Inn]

Michelangelo Grigni wrote:

> This is a job for the shell IFS variable.  Just set it to
> contain a single newline, and then each line will be
> treated as a single input field.   Like this:
> 
> IFS='
> '
> for f in `cat t1.txt` ; do echo $f ; done
> 
> Or like this, without cat:
> 
> IFS='
> '
> while read f; do echo $f; done < t1.txt
> 
> You may need to restore IFS to its default, depending on
> what else you do in the script.

With the 'while read f;' solution above, you do not need to modify IFS,
since 'read f' will populate the var 'f' with one line at a time.

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