On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> 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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
