LKBEN11059: Howto do a command on every line in a textfile with bash and a do command
Symptom
You need to do something for every line in a text file with whitespaces.
Cause
none
Solution
The solution from the knowledge base article 15 does not work when you have whitespaces in your file! This solution can loops over every line in the file 'allerrors.txt' and prints them on the screen.
#/bin/bash
cat allerrors.txt |while read i;
do echo $i;
done
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Author:
- Keskon GmbH & Co. KGWim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.