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!
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Heiko Wundram
Product & Application Development
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