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  • thanks for editing!! i am new in linux .you mean using script to processing text is a bad practice? i expect the shell can do more. anyway do you have solution ?? i just want to know why. if i echo * in a script solely.its okay but if i loop every word in text file and pass to variable and echo it.something wrong with the asterisk character! Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 5:43
  • The shell can do more, but other tools can do it better. It depends on what you want to do with the text. Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 5:45