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 "$line" >> outfile
> done
>
> The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a
> line in the input fi
ated
from "$line", and i dont want that..i want the whole line to go into
outfile, no matter if the last characters are whitespace!
thanks very much
martin
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