Looping through lines with tabs of file with cat

[yitzle]

How do I loop through the lines of a file when the lines have a tab in them?
When I quote the cat operator, it reads the entire file at once.
When I do not quote, each tab seperated item is treated as a new item.
How do I make it seperate items by newline only?
-- CODE --
fileIn="blah"
for i in "$(cat $fileIn)"
do
echo $i
echo
done

Thanks!
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Re: Looping through lines with tabs of file with cat

[yitzle]

On 11/4/07, Mike Stroyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:42:21AM -0800, yitzle wrote:
> > How do I loop through the lines of a file when the lines have a tab in them?
> > When I quote the cat operator, it reads the entire file at once.
> > When I do not quote, each tab seperated item is treated as a new item.
> > How do I make it seperate items by newline only?
> > -- CODE --
> > fileIn="blah"
> > for i in "$(cat $fileIn)"
> > do
> > echo $i
> > echo
> > done
>
>   Don't use cat.  Read the contents of the file directly with "read".
>
> fileIn="blah"
> while read i
> do
> echo "$i"
> echo
> done < "$fileIn"

Thanks!