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bujecas

07-17-2006 06:40 AM

for statement in bourne shell script

Hello,

I am parsing a file with entries like "word1 word2 word3". I need to parse each line, so I used a "for" statement in a Bourne shell script. Something like this:

Code:

for line in `cat $file`

do

  echo $line

done

In this simple example I want to print each line "word1 word2 word3" but instead it prints each word in a diferent line. The "for" statement seems not to distinguish between spaces and newlines...

Any idea to resolve this?
Thanks.

druuna

07-17-2006 06:52 AM

Hi,

Is this what you want:

Code:

for line in "`cat $file`"

do

  echo "$line"

done

You need to double quote the cat statement and the $line variable.

Hope this helps.

spooon

07-17-2006 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bujecas

Hello,

I am parsing a file with entries like "word1 word2 word3". I need to parse each line, so I used a "for" statement in a Bourne shell script. Something like this:

Code:

for line in `cat $file`

do

  echo $line

done

Code:

cat $file | while read line

do

  echo $line

done

Code:

while read line

do

  echo $line

done < $file

theYinYeti

07-17-2006 07:32 AM

More generally, there are three main solutions when you want to read the output of something line by line:

Code:

something | while read line; do process "$line"; done

Code:

SaveIFS="$IFS"

IFS=$'\n'

for line in $(something); do process "$line"; done

IFS="$SaveIFS"

Code:

while read line; do process "$line"; done < <(something)

Yves.

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