Echoing variables

[rakeshs859]

Hello, I'm reading a file that has a string with spaces such as a sentence. If I want to read the string and echo it out, it only shows me the 1st word. How can I get echo to print out the entire string. I've tried the \n and \c arguments and they don't help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Rakeshs859

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Did you try echo "$STRING"?


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[PHV]

How are you reading your file ?
Try something like this:

while read buf; do
  echo "$buf"
done </path/to/yourfile

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[rakeshs859]

Hello,

Let's say that my string that is read from the file such as the following code:

for line in `cat list.txt` ; do
{
echo $line
}
done

It only echos the first word of a line that contains spaces such as a sentence. I want to echo the entire line.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[rakeshs859]

Thank you PHV,

That did the trick!

Cheers.