Re: read file with windows filenames

[Matthias Meyer <matthias dot meyer at gmx dot li>]

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've had intermittent problems with bash and
> while read loops where the loop aborts after one iteration whenever
> there's nontrivial code in the loop body, on multiple platforms, not
> just Cygwin.  So this might not be a Cygwin issue.  I've never been
> ble to isolate the problem enough to file a bug report, unfortunately.

Thanks to all.
The problem was a problem of this windows program attrib. /dev/null will
solve this problem. :-)

#!/bin/sh
while read -r cLine
do
        echo $cLine
        attrib ${cLine%%:*} "${cLine#*:}" < /dev/null
done < 2restore4

br
Matthias
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