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Hi all, I'm having problems reading in data from a data file when I use the cat command within a ksh script. I want to read in the whole line at a time, and not lose the spaces within it. #test.dat 3729 UK 3462 UK 2483 Spain 3567 UK 6747 US 3299 France 4666 UK 4899 UK 7777 Germany 4900 UK #script.ksh for val in `cat test.dat`; do echo $val done Unfortunately that reads in each value at a time - I need to read in the whole line at a time and not lose any spaces - Any idea what I can use? Thanks, k.

Name: thepubba
Date: January 31, 2005 at 08:48:09 Pacific

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cat test.dat | while read line do print $line done or better yet, don't use cat. Simply: exec 3<test.dat while read -u3 line do print $line done

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Thanks for that - Looks good!

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