Miche <[email protected]> writes: > Repeat-By: > touch file\ \ with\ more\ than\ one\ spaces\ \ \ in\ sequence > ls -1 file* > for a in file* ; do echo $a ; done
Insufficient quoting. The expansion of $a undergoes word splitting, you
have to quote it to suppress that.
for a in file* ; do echo "$a" ; done
Andreas.
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