Re: Lyx command line question: summarized

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| find foo -name '*.gif' | while read file
| do
|     pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png
|     convert "$file" "pngfile"
| done

Hmm... I thought thiw was usually written as a for-loop.

for file in `find foo -name \*.gif` ; do
        pngfile=`basename "$file" .gif`.png
        convert "$file" "$pngfile"
done

(and you forgot a '$')

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        Lgb