Escape space in for loop

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a file with the following contents

[root@rf4003 scripts]# more hello.txt
man
hello man
whereru

The shell script i have tries to echo the contents of the file hello.txt

for i in `cat hello.txt`
do
        echo $i
done

but the output i am getting is taking the space as a new line..

[root@rf4003 scripts]# ./hello.sh
man
hello
man
whereru

Can anybody help me to echo the contents of the file
as it should be?

2

The use of cat is redundant (UUC), use a while loop and quote the variables:

while read i
do
  echo "$i"
done < hello.txt
3 
cat hello.txt | while read i
do
  echo "$i"
done

This is also working.. thanks Franklin

4

As mentioned, the use of cat is redundant and cost an extra process. Have a read of Useless Use of Cat Award.

Regards