THanks all who gave me an answer, i found this doc and helped me. Thanks again http://mywiki.wooledge.org/DontReadLinesWithFor ---------------------------------- Alejandro Rodriguez Luna E-mail: el_alexluna at yahoo.com.mx Movil: 044-311-112-86-41 ---------------------------------- ________________________________ De: "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> Para: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Enviado: Viernes, 10 de febrero, 2012 9:59:35 Asunto: Re: [CentOS] script regular expression 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. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos