> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> Summary:
> Characters aren't being properly escaped/evaluated in a Bash
>
> Full Description:
>
> I'm trying to take a series of lines in a file like so (ignore
> 1.-3. characters -- they're just there for
> visual breaking):
>
> 1. This is a file with multiple
> 2. fields spread across multiple
> 3. lines.
>
> and group it up into line by line groups, and analyze with
> "for" in bash.
`for' isn't really appropriate for this job, since most of the common
idioms perform too much or too little word splitting. It's better to
use a `while read' loop and quote the variable containing the line
when you use it.
Chet
--
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
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