"for" and line by line

From: Markus Wenke (M.Wenke_at_web.de)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:27:13 +0200

Hi,

I want to write a "for"-loop in bash such like this one:

for LINE in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
   echo $LINE
done

But I get every word, and not every line. and if I set "IFS=^M" like this:

IFS=[CTRL V][ENTER] for LINE in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
   echo $LINE
done

the bash can't read the command.

How can I realise it?

Thanks in advance

Markus Wenke

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