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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T09:16:34+00:00 2026-05-26T09:16:34+00:00

I need to pipe data into a while loop in a bash script, but

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I need to pipe data into a while loop in a bash script, but it keeps trimming the whitespace. For example:

echo "   test" | while read i; do echo "$i"; done

How can I prevent it from doing this?

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    2026-05-26T09:16:35+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 9:16 am
    echo "   test" | while IFS= read i; do echo "$i"; done
    
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