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Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:52:21 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stupid /bin/sh Script Question
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In the last episode (May 31), Greg Pavelcak said:
> Starting with a file containing a list of names:
> 
> firstname1 lastname1
> firstname2 lastname2
> .
> I wanted to do "whois" on all of them. My idea was:
> 
> for i in `cat file`; do whois $i >> newfile ; done
> 
> But the output of that appears to be what would be generated by:
> 
> whois firstname1
> whois lastname1
> whois firstname2

cat file | while read i ; do whois $i ; done
 
Alternatively, you could probably play with IFS to make the `` only
split on newline, but I dislike that approach.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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