am trying to read a single text file line by line....
i wrote a pretty lengthy shell script only to realize when running that i cannot read a single line entirely
i used
for REC in `cat WAV.dat`
do

done

what i want is REC to have the entire line and not a single field in the line...

now i donot want to go for awk now...otherwise i will have to change to entire script..

so please help me read an entire line into a variable ...

Try this :

Yeah!

aigles, u are not aigles.... u are an Angel..helping ppl out of misery

thanx wiz!