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Asked: 2012-11-22 02:17:52 +0800 CST

echo without newline

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-bash-4.1# cat output
"/root/mail/domain.com/root/Archive Dir.2012.04 April"

for i in `cat output`; do echo "$i"; done
"/root/mail/domain.com/root/Archive
Dir.2012.04
April"

I want them on a single line, as they are originally stored in the file. Is it echo's fault?
echo -n will break everything, so it won't do.

echo

2 Answers

  1. You can use a while loop

    while read i 
do
    echo $i
done < output

    The reason why your command doesn't work as you expect is that for operates on words. The value of the $IFS variable determines what characters are used to delimit words, the default is space, tab and newline. As your input file contains lines that have spaces they are being spit into words. If you need to use a for loop you can work around this by wraping your lines in "

    for i in "`cat output`"
do
    echo "$i"
done
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  2. while read line; do echo $line; done < output
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