Read and keep spaces

[thepom02]

I have a script that sequentially read thru a file in a while do loop. However leading spaces from the records are removed by the read, is there anyway to keep these spaces.

example

while read -r line
do
PROCESS goes here
done < $PrintFile

If my line is " Here is some text", $line only shows "Here is some text".

Thanks
Paul

 

[Ygor]

You would have to set IFS to a null character before the read, e.g...
[tt](
IFS="\000"
while read -r line
do
:
done < $PrintFile
)[/tt]

 

[dchoulette]

You should have to set IFS to a null character just before the read" so as to not interfere with the other commands in the loop.

  while [COLOR=red]IFS="\000"[/color] read -r line
  do 
    :
  done < $PrintFile

This way the IFS is set to null only during the read.

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Denis

 

[thepom02]

Thanks for both replies, that fixed my problem.