B"H On 7/12/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Menachem Shapiro wrote: > > Well then, what about this: > > > > for i in `ls *.doc` > > I know several of us are wondering: > > Why this instead of just: > > for i in *.doc > > It's less typing, less chance of ls doing something odd (maybe it's > aliased or something), and saves the fork/exec of ls.
I don't think I have a good reason, I've just done it that way for a while now. It's possible that it might have solved some kind of problem I was having at the time, but I am not sure. If *.doc is better than `ls *.doc`, you should definitely use *.doc Menachem > > - -- > Tracy R Reed > http://ultraviolet.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFC03TB9PIYKZYVAq0RAsSMAJ0Yq3h5gDqEOqoKvmeRWFWOtB2YpgCdE18w > QyI20DkxH5qg8M5JOJq/0cM= > =HXhf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
