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Parsing text file line by line

Hi,

I have a file with cvs output:

Code:

Checking in src/com/blah/Foo.java;

/home/cvs/cvsroot/project/src/com/blah/Foo.java,v  <--  Foo.java

new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1

done



Checking in src/com/blah/Bar.java;

/home/cvs/cvsroot/project/src/com/blah/Bar.java,v  <--  Bar.java

new revision: 1.7; previous revision: 1.6

done

I want to parse this file line by line:

Code:

LINES="$( cat cvsout.txt )"

for i in $(<LINES); do

  echo $i

done

but this converts each white space into a new line, so I get

Code:

Checking

in

src/com/blah/Foo.java;

...

What am I doing wrong here? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

PS: if it helps, my end goal is to format the text into a tidier output that looks like this:

Code:

project/src/com/blah/Foo.java:1.2

project/src/com/blah/Bar.java:1.7

You want something like this:

Code:

cat cvsout.txt | while read line; do

    echo "got line: $line"

done

...although I think perl or awk is a better bet for this sort of task. For sure you can do it with a shell script, but it's really not ideal for this sort of thing, whereas perl is. For example:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w



use strict;



my $file = "";

my $ver = 0.0;





while (<>) {

        if ( m|cvsroot/(.*),v\s| ) {

                $file = $1;

        }

        elsif ( m|^new revision: ([^;]+);| ) {

                $ver = $1;

        }

        elsif ( /^\s*done\s*$/ ) {

                print "$file:$ver\n";

        }

}

That does exactly what i need.

Cheers Matt!