Escape variables in bash

Question

I have a text file with a lot of lines like messages:

valid user

operation enable

you don\'t have rights to do this

please enter more than 5 characters ...

and i use a bash script to read this file like

while read line
do
    ....
    echo "${line}"
    ....
done

and returns all good, but in the message 3, just return:

you don't have rights to do this

without the "\"

how i can return the exactly line?

Michael Krelin - hacker · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14 15:02:09Z

4

Then try read -r line instead.

answered Dec 14, 2011 at 15:02

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