Re: scripting - cat breaking line

[L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com>]

On 6/23/07, Gabriel Parrondo <g.parrondo@gmail.com> wrote:

El sáb, 23-06-2007 a las 18:43 -0700, L.V.Gandhi escribió:
> On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <sunwukung@gmail.com> wrote:
>         The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within
>         double
>         quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not
>         performed on the
>         results."  So try "$(cat temp1)"
>         -
> Thanks for the reply. However result was
> lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ for line in "$(cat temp1)";do echo "20070622,
> $line">>temp2 ;done
> lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ cat temp2
> 20070622,3IINFOTECH,3I INFOTECH LTD.,       304.00 ,       307.95,
> 302.60,       305.55,184687
> 3MINDIA,3M INDIA LIMITED,      1785.00,      1823.00,      1760.00,
> 1819.50,1464
> lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$
> I think ever line breaks are not considered.
>

Look for the IFS variable in the bash manpage.

Thanks Mr.Gabriel Parrondo for your reply. I will look into that.
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