read command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have file which is space filled likE below

Note: here spaces are replaced by |.
When I use read command to read this file all the spaces are truncated only the default space is not removed. The output is

Note: here spaces are replaced by |.

Can this default truncation be override?

2

I assume you are storing each line of the file in a variable. In that case, use double quotes:

MYVARIABLE="ABC8457573759             5565656           564645645646"
echo "$MYVARIABLE"

Regards.

3

What about this line:

Will it work?

4

Try it. Your definition of "work" might be more complex than we can guess.

5

Nope, its doesn't. The trailing and preceeding spaces are truncated. But if

is set to something like

then the preceeding and trailing spaces can also be taken into account.