Re: bash scripts misrepresenting white space

[Simon Law]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 07:44:16PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote:
> I try, for example:
> for i in `ls`
> do
> echo $i
> done

You want:

    for i in *
    do
        echo "$i"
    done

which will do what you probably want.  I'd suggest consulting the Bash
info manual which should tell you what you need to know about quoting.

Simon


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