Unix 'read' command

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I'm pretty new to Unix and trying to familiarise myself with it.

When using read on a string of text, the first word is assigned $1, the second $2 and so on.

I've used the manual pages but cant find how to assign the entire text as $1.

Any tips/cheats/codes/hints will be truly appreciated!!!

 

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Er - there is some detail missing there - read will normally read the whole line, and putting the results in $1 etc is a new one on me.

Usually

Code:

 read myline 

will do what you want, so what does your code actually look like? And which shell are you using?

Harry.

 

Check the IFS's (internal field separators) - I remember having problems at uni with this!