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From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
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Subject: Re: sh script question
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On 15-Oct-2001 doug@safeport.com wrote:
> for Line in `cat ${FILE:-$1}`; do 
>   echo $Line
> done

I always use something like this:

while read Line
do
        echo $Line
done < $FILE

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>

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floor -- especially in the dark.


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