Hello,

I having a problem reading a file in a while loop.
My file (called "testfile.txt") contains these lines:
\"test\"
\"hello\"

(including both \ and ")

This is the loop I have written:

=======================
while read line
do
echo $line
done < testfile.txt
=======================

the output is:
"test"
"hello"

it removes the slashes (which I need).

I also tried with:
echo ${line}
echo "$line"
echo "${line}"

without success.

It looks like I can't figure out the solution ... maybe I am too tired

Can anyone help me please?

Thank you!

According to `man read`, read takes a -r option. Try that.

You lose the escapes before they get to echo, by the way. That's why none of that other stuff worked.

Thenk you karamarisan it works like a charm!

You saved my day!