On Dec 9, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> for i in *.meta; do echo "something with $i"; done
Of course, you are correct. I never even thought about that! Thanks Randal.
If only you had said that in your first response, instead of "{sigh}". :-)
And yes, I should be quoting the uses of "$m" to avoid any weird shell meta
characters or spaces that might be in the file names. But if any of David's
.meta files are actually directories, I think he's got bigger problems.
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
http://www.peterson-tech.com/~jlp/
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