Question

need advice about the following

with the following ksh script I actually copy file1 to file2
my problem is that lines in file2 are not with the same location as file1

 #!/bin/ksh

 while read -r line ; do 
 echo $line >> file2
 done < file1

for example

more file1
  line1
      line2
         line3


more  file2
line1
line2
line3

the question what I need to change in my script in order to get lines location as described in file1? after I run my ksh script?

lidia

Answer 1

you can set IFS=

while IFS= read -r line ; do echo "$line"; done<file