Reading a file Line by Line in Linux?

Question

I want to read a file line by line, what could be the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Try something like this

    while read line
    do
            echo $line 
    done < $file

Comments

use -r flag for read which stands for:
   -r     Do not treat a backslash character in any special way. Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.