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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: lost my space ...
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:33:46 +0100
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Marc Chantreux wrote:
> say this text as stdin :
> 
> uid: suzan
> description: R&D leader,
>   doesn't know unix
>   but skilled in C programming
> 
> 
> the problem is that "while { read line }" will crunch the space at the 
> begin of the line.

Use
  IFS= read line

If you really want raw input lines, you might want the -r flag to read
as well.

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