hi david, so , if i understand this correctly, the output of $ls -Q *.wav which i was trying to use to make a wordlist using `ls -Q *.wav` looks the same as if i typed each song title surrounded by quotes, but is in some way, 'different' 'behind the scenes' as it were, having searched on 'IFS' this makes some sense though i still don't understand yet exactly what IFS=$(echo -e "\n\r\t") does and why it has form it does is this vaguely near the mark? and can you recommend a book on shell programming that goes into this sort of detail as the one i've got is useless! bascule On Saturday 15 September 2001 5:01 am, you wrote: > Hi, > > what is going on here is that the for loop is iterating over EACH element > in `ls -Q *.wav`, which returns each song title surrounded by quotes, > which don't make a difference, as it is seperating the "list" into > elements by splitting on spaces. > > David Charles >
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