I want to read text file word by word. Problem: there are some words containing "/*". Such a word causes script to return files in root directory. I tried:
for word in $(< file)
do
printf "[%s]\n" "$word"
done
And several other combinations with echo/cat/etc... For this file:
/* example file
I get following output:
[/bin]
[/cygdrive]
[/Cygwin.bat]
...
[example]
[file]
Should be easy but it's driving me nuts.
You need to turn off pathname expansion globbing. Run a new shell with bash -f
and try again. See http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/globs or dive into the manpage with man bash
, maybe do man bash | col -b >bash.txt
.