[CentOS] script regular expression

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Steve Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, I was creating a script and i found something i can't
>> figure out.
>>
>> #/bin/bash
>> for i in $(cat certificates.txt)
>> do 
>>     echo $i
>> done
>>
>> I expected this
>>
>> RSA Secure Server Certification Authority
>> VeriSign Class 1 CA Individual Subscriber-Persona Not Validated
>>
>>
>> but i got this
>>
>> RSA
>> Secure
<snip>

Sure will. i is in the list RSA Secure etc. and each word is a member of
the list, separated by whitespace. Y'know, it would be a lot easier to do
awk '{print $0;}' certificates.txt, which would be exactly what you want.

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