Right, because so many of us have tabs newlines and spaces in our filenames - particularly our mediawiki extensions.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Juliano F. Ravasi <[email protected]> wrote: > Benjamin Lees wrote: > > I think that would have to be > > cd /var/www/mediawiki && svn update && for dir in `ls > > /var/www/mediawiki/extensions`;do cd "/var/www/mediawiki/$dir" && svn > > update;done; > > Don't ever use 'ls' to generate a word list for use with 'for', it'll > hurt yourself when you least expect. This should be enough: > > cd /var/www/mediawiki && svn update && > for dir in /var/www/mediawiki/extensions/*/ > do cd "$dir" && svn update > done > > -- > Juliano F. Ravasi ยทยท http://juliano.info/ > 5105 46CC B2B7 F0CD 5F47 E740 72CA 54F4 DF37 9E96 > > "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." -- Erin Majors > > * NOTE: Don't try to reach me through this address, use "contact@" > instead. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
