I want to write a "for"-loop in bash such like this one:

for LINE in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
   echo $LINE
done

But I get every word, and not every line. and if I set "IFS=^M" like this:

IFS=[CTRL V][ENTER] for LINE in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
   echo $LINE
done

the bash can't read the command.

How can I realise it?

Thanks in advance

Markus Wenke

while IFS= read -r LINE
do
   echo $LINE
done < /etc/passwd

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In ksh and bash you can use the "escape sequence" processor $'' to
interpret escape sequences.  For example to set the IFS variable to a
"space-tab-newline":

IFS=$' \t\n'

So to set IFS to a single newline: IFS=$'\n'

All the normal escape sequences can be used inside the escape sequence
processor including hex and octal values.  See the ksh manual for more
info.

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