Answer by bac0n for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
Mapfile is a convenient way to read lines from a file into an indexed array, not as portable as read but slightly faster. By using for loop you avoid creating a subshell. #!/bin/bash mapfile -t <...
View ArticleAnswer by odoncaoa for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
Dandalf got real close to a functional solution, but one should NOT EVER be trying to assign the result of unknown amounts of input (i.e. find ~/.gdfuse -name '*') to variables! Or, at least be trying...
View ArticleAnswer by mik for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
I would write it like this: cat ./file_wget_med | while read -r j do echo $j done as it requires least changes in the original script (except for the solution using IFS, but it modifies bash behavior...
View ArticleAnswer by Dandalf for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
Here is a slight extension to Mitchell Currie's answer, that I like because of the small scope of side effects, which avoids having to set a variable: #!/bin/bash while read -r fname; do echo $fname...
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#!/bin/bash files=`find <subdir> -name '*'` while read -r fname; do echo $fname done <<< "$files" Verified working, not the one liner you probably want but it's not possible to do so...
View ArticleAnswer by Radu Rădeanu for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
for loop splits when it sees any whitespace like space, tab, or newline. So, you should use IFS (Internal Field Separator): IFS=$'\n' # make newlines the only separator for j in $(cat ./file_wget_med)...
View ArticleAnswer by evilsoup for How to read complete line in 'for' loop with spaces
for loops split on any whitespace (space, tab, newline) by default; the easiest way to work on one line at a time is to use a while read loop instead, which splits on newlines: while read i; do echo...
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I am trying to run a for loop for file and I want to display whole line. But instead its displaying last word only. I want the complete line. for j in `cat ./file_wget_med` do echo $j done result...
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