OT: bash script - unexpected exit

[Andre Speelmans]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What exactly were you trying to accomplish using cat?

I was not trying, the OP had a script that did a:
cat file | while read line; do something done

Matthew commented that you should not rely on cat for reading a file
line by line and I was curious as to why not. The example Matthe gave:

while read; do something; done < file

would have been my preferred way, but I was curious as to whether
there was a specific reason to not rely on cat. So far cat always gave
me the contents of the file, after all, and as such seemed pretty
reliable.


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Regards,

André