On 2007-12-07, sancho1980 wrote: > > i have a script that reads lines from a file in this manner: > > cat infile | while read line
You don't need cat. > do > echo "$line" >> outfile > done > > The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a > line in the input file, because this whitespace get automatically truncated > from "$line", and i dont want that..i want the whole line to go into > outfile, no matter if the last characters are whitespace! while IFS= read -r line do printf "%s\n" "$line" done < infile -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) .
