Re: [opensuse] BASH - howto 'read' line in file and preserve leading whitespace?

David C. Rankin wrote:

Listmates,

I stumbled on a problem trying to read a file (email mailbox) line-by-line in bash. Using the built-in read, it strips the leading whitespace from each line

Hi David yes, that is exactly what read is intended to do.

I was using a while loop as follows:

[snip] So, you'd like to read the file line-by-line, do some tests on it, and write it back out, possibly modified?

Is there a bash trick that will preserve the whitespace?

How about sed ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org