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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Sat,  5 Jan 2019 23:46:59 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] How does one read a file line by line in an rc script?
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What are you running this on, is this byron's rc on unix?

I just tried the secript I posted, cut and pasted into a
tiny shell scropt called testread, and it just worked=E2=84=A2

maybe some other part of your script has a problem?

My script below
-----snip-----snip-----
#!/bin/rc

cat $1 | while(line=3D`{read}){
echo $line
}

-----snip-----snip-----


Also, I didn't have the time to read all of your previous question,
but I think what you are after is $"varname, this expands to the value
of the variable but as a single argument, no matter if it, when
it was assigned, had multiple, white space seperated words in it.

for example:  (NB: hugo% is my prompt)

	hugo% fred=3D(a b c d)

	hugo% echo $fred^-letter
	a-letter b-letter c-letter d-letter

	hugo% echo $"fred^-letter
	a b c d-letter

-Steve