Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread znx
On 29/01/06, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you got some file named: hey I am a long file name with spaces.jpg ;) No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by default (unless you tamper with IFS), so the variable tested will be without

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
znx wrote: No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by default No, it won't. Try it. (unless you tamper with IFS), so the variable tested will be without whitespace, No, it won't. I can only guess its a charset or similar that is causing the issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-30 Thread znx
First off.. OH! On 30/01/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: znx wrote: No it can't be that, see the for before hand, that will separate at whitespace by defaultNo, it won't. Try it. True, ok so it did? and not now with bash3, I presume this is why it worked before and doesn't now?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:05 +, znx wrote: Hi, for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then I can't see anything wrong with this in particular, one thing that springs to mind is to quote the string that you are testing: for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about new bash [SOLVED]

2006-01-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Michael Sullivan wrote: for x in *.JPG; do if [ ! -e current/$x ]; then Hope that helps Yep, that worked! Thanks! Hmm, I wonder why it worked before? Perhaps you got some file named: hey I am a long file name with spaces.jpg ;) -- Norberto Bensa Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina