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at June 30, 2008 04:08 by chaitanya
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Hi, 
I am trying to loop through the lines of a file in shell. The code I am using is

#!/usr/bin/ksh
for line in `cat /tmp/file1.txt`
do
        echo $line
done

Intead of getting the output in lines , i am getting word by word.

What may be the problem ?

Thanks,
chaitanya
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