On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
> So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only by
> newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the whole line,
> and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space?
This has been asked and answered a few times in the past. There are
several ways to do it. Here is one:
#!/bin/sh
IFS=$'\n'
for FILE in `ls -1`; do
echo $FILE
done
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Jamin W. Collins
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