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Re: how to preserve all spacings in the file content, when parsing throu
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alex xmb sw ratchev |
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Re: how to preserve all spacings in the file content, when parsing through it with while + read |
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Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:13:53 +0200 |
cool , thanks too , ++
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 1:11 PM Ante Bilandzic <abilandzic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot, this does the job correctly!
>
> Cheers,
> Ante
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> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 12:43 PM alex xmb sw ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> try IFS= read -r line
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 12:12 PM Ante Bilandzic <abilandzic@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is the content of example file.txt:
>>>
>>> The shell is both an interactive command language
>>> and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to
>>> control the execution of the system using shell scripts.
>>>
>>> I would like to parse through it using while + read, but also to preserve
>>> all original spacings in the file. It seems, however, that all spacings
>>> at
>>> the very beginning of the lines are gone, while all other spacings are
>>> preserved:
>>>
>>> $ while read Line; do echo "$Line"; done < file.txt
>>> The shell is both an interactive command language
>>> and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to
>>> control the execution of the system using shell scripts.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to preserve original spacings also at the beginning
>>> of
>>> the lines, when parsing with while + read?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ante
>>>
>>