Cat with new line

bash

Solution

you need to set `IFS` to newline `\n`

IFS=$"\n"
for groupline in $(cat file)
do
        echo "$groupline";
done

Or put double quotes. See here for explanation

for groupline in "$(cat file)"
do
        echo "$groupline";
done

without meddling with IFS, the "proper" way is to use while read loop

while read -r line
do
 echo "$line"
done <"file"

Problem

My input file's contents are: welcome welcome1 welcome2 My script is: ``` for groupline in `cat file` do echo $groupline; done ``` I got the following output: ``` welcome welcome1 welcome2 ``` Why doesn't it print the empty line?

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