Oops. <looks sheepish> I did indeed mean for both instances of the word
"Filename" to be in the same case.
<sigh> I must be getting old; either that or I'm not drinking enough
coke.

Apologies if I caused any confusion. :)

P.

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 08:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Paul Furness wrote:
> > 
> > Path="My Documents/"
> > for FILENAME in ls "${Path}"
> > do
> >      cp "${Path}${Filename}" "/tmp"
> > done
> 
> I think you mean:
> ----------------------------------
> Path="My Documents/"
> for FILENAME in `ls "${Path}"`
> do
>     cp "${Path}${FILENAME}" "/tmp"
> done
> ----------------------------------
> Note the changes in lines two and four.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.

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