From: Jason Zapman II <zapman@cc.gatech.edu>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: variables set to full lines.
Date: 28 Feb 1998 23:34:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hvgyayvvxjk.fsf@vinnie.cc.gatech.edu> (raw)
I've occasionally wanted to do something like this:
for line in `cat file` ; do
echo $line >> file1
done
where $line is set to a string containing each line in the file, rather
than each word.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks;
Jason
--
Jason Price | If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
Theta Xi, | together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
Beta, Alpha 449 | and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
jprice@poboxes.com | immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
next reply other threads:[~1998-03-01 4:50 UTC|newest]
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1998-03-01 4:34 Jason Zapman II [this message]
1998-03-01 17:35 ` Bart Schaefer
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