On Fri, 17 May 2002, at 7:55am, Ken Ambrose wrote:
> Unfortunately, it takes each seperate "word" as a different paramater. I
> -know- I've done this before, but I just can't remember how. Suggestions?
Place variables which may contain shell special characters in "double
quotes", i.e.,
for i in * ; do foo "$i" ; echo "$i is done" ; done
Also, be aware of the "-print0" switch to "find", and the "-0" switch of
"xargs", which lets you do things like:
find -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 foo
(Note, that 0 is digit zero, not letter O.)
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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