semi OT: sh scripting problem

Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wundram at beenic.net
Wed Aug 1 14:54:12 UTC 2007


Am Mittwoch 01 August 2007 16:35:44 schrieb Robert Huff:
> 	Is there a way within the script - or, failing that, by
> modifying FILE - to not break at the whitespace?

If you're using bash, set IFS to the newline only before looping. I guess the 
tcsh also has a similar setting, but I wouldn't know where to look.

---
IFS="
"

for i in `cat file`
do
	...
done
---

HTH!

-- 
Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development


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