--- Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) for x in dir/*; do dos2unix $x ; done
>     (Instead of dos2unix you can use your own
> commandline as yo had done 
> before)

Cool, but does not recurse through subdirectories !

> 
> No. This is because the shell creates a different
> parallel process for 
> every command in the pipes of the command-line.
> Since they have all been 
> spawned from the shell at the same time, a variable
> in environment of one 
> of the process is not available in a parallel
> process.
> 

Do I have four bash programs in memory there ?

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