Re: Shell Scripting Question

[Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

I believe something like this should work:

for $fruit in 'cat /usr/food/fruits.txt' &&
	do echo -n $fruit
done

echo -n omits the trailing newline as seen in 'man echo'

Enjoy,
Cameron Matheson

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 06:10:35PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> I have a file which as a list of varions itmes (example below)
> 
> # /usr/food/fruits.txt
> banana medium yellow
> apple small red
> watermelon big green
> plum small red
> etc etc etc ...
> 
> when I create the following loop ...
> 
> for $fruit in `cat /usr/food/fruits.txt` &&
>         do echo $fruit
>         some code with $fruit &&
>         some more code with $fruit &&
> done
> 
> it prints the list, but with each word on a seperate line (as followed)
> 
> banana
> medium
> yellow
> apple
> etc etc etc ...
> 
> my question is, how do I get it to print the list with each line as the 
> variable $fruit, as opposed to $fruit being each word.

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