I want to include an argument that contains a \ in one of the commands. These arguments are in a file (one in a line). Ex:

C:\
D:\

If I perform a while loop to read these lines,

while read varName
do
echo $varName
done < $argFile

the loop exits without executing even once. How do I read these variables by escaping the \ ?

Thanks.

If the last char of the line is \, 'read' assume that there is a continuation line.
A solution is to escape the \ :
'C:\' must be converted to 'C:\\' before 'read'

That seems to work!! Thanks buddy.