[plug] function error

Stuart Midgley stuart.midgley at ivec.org
Wed Jan 11 23:04:23 WST 2006


sorry, my fortran is showing through... those are "for" loops

	for line in $( cat $FILE); do
		command on line
	done

Stu.


On 11/01/2006, at 22:59, Stuart Midgley wrote:

> perhaps use awk or sed?
>
> Or, you can set the IFS to just <new-line> and do a standard for loop
>
> 	IFS=$'\x0a'
> 	do line in $( cat $FILE ); do
> 		command on line
> 	done
>
> or if you don't like octal do
>
> 	IFS="<ctrl-v><ctrl-j>"
> 	do line in $( cat $FILE ); do
> 		command on line
> 	done
>
> where <ctrl-v> and <ctrl-j> are holding down the control key and  
> pressing the v and j respectively.  This will look like
>
> 	IFS="
> 	"
>
> Stu.


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