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 "$line" >> outfile
> done
>
> The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a
> line in the input file
On Dec 7, 2007 12:49 PM, sancho1980 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a
> line in the input file, because this whitespace get automatically truncated
> from "$line", and i dont want that..i want the whole line to go into
> outfile,
On Dec 7, 2007 5:49 AM, sancho1980 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a script that reads lines from a file in this manner:
>
> cat infile | while read line
> do
> echo "$line" >> outfile
> done
>
> The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a
> line in the input fi
hi
i have a script that reads lines from a file in this manner:
cat infile | while read line
do
echo "$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
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loc
