Question

Given a text file with multiple lines, I would like to iterate over each line in a Bash script. I had attempted to use cut, but cut does not accept \n (newline) as a delimiter.

This is an example of the file I am working with:

one
two 
three 
four

Does anyone know how I can loop through each line of this text file in Bash?

Answer 1

Use cat for concatenating or displaying. No need for it here.

file="/path/to/file"
while read line; do
  echo "${line}"
done < "${file}"