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From: Micha Holzmann <holzmann@xxxxxxxx>
To: Paul Lew <paullew@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: cat file|while read behaves not as expected
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:45:04 +0200
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Hello Paul,

Quoting Paul Lew <paullew@xxxxxxxxx>:
> if you say:
> 
>     for i in $=line
> 
> it will do what you want.  Basically, the variable i will contain the
> "1 2 3 4 5", unless you told it to split word, the entire entry is
> will be used on variable expansion.  This is what zsh does it
> correctly compare to other shells, but also a problem with
> compatibility :-)

so many thanks! Now my script runs how i expect it.
Also thanks to David Hughes!

Kind regards,
Gruss,
Micha Holzmann

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