Saturday, October 6, 2007

How to read leading spaces from a file in UNIX?

How do you retain leading spaces while reading from a file in UNIX? One way to do this is change the variable used to set the Internal Field Separator (IFS) in UNIX and set it to nothing.

ORIGINAL_IFS=$IFS
IFS=
while read LINE
do
...
...
...

done < $IN_FILE

IFS=$ORIGINAL_IFS

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A TRIP TO BHANDUP PUMPING STATION - the birdwatchers paradise

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