reading whitespaces and beginning and end of line

[sancho1980]

hi

i have a script that reads lines from a file in this manner:

cat infile | while read line
do
    echo "$line" >> outfile
done

The problem I have occurs whenever there is a whitespace at the end of a
line in the input file, because this whitespace get automatically truncated
from "$line", and i dont want that..i want the whole line to go into
outfile, no matter if the last characters are whitespace!

thanks very much

martin
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