Re: scripting - cat breaking line

From: L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi(at)gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 21:43:19 EDT

On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <sunwukung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within double
> quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the
> results." So try "$(cat temp1)"
> -

Thanks for the reply. However result was lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ for line in "$(cat temp1)";do echo "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done
lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$ cat temp2

20070622,3IINFOTECH,3I INFOTECH LTD.,       304.00,       307.95,
302.60,       305.55,184687
3MINDIA,3M INDIA LIMITED,      1785.00,      1823.00,      1760.00,

1819.50,1464
lvgandhi@lvgvaio:~$
I think ever line breaks are not considered.

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