On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Andre Speelmans <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What exactly were you trying to accomplish using cat? > > I was not trying, the OP had a script that did a: > cat file | while read line; do something done > > Matthew commented that you should not rely on cat for reading a file > line by line and I was curious as to why not. The example Matthe gave: > > while read; do something; done < file > > would have been my preferred way, but I was curious as to whether > there was a specific reason to not rely on cat. So far cat always gave > me the contents of the file, after all, and as such seemed pretty > reliable. > > > -- > Regards, > > André > I see! Thanx for elucidating. The second method you state should be like this while read line; do Something with "$line" done < file Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
