On Thursday 12 December 2002 02:27 pm, Sherwin Daganato wrote:
> Randal Schwartz, the perl hacker, calls this "useless use of less".
> You probably mean
>
> for var in *; do echo $var; done
hmmm, i didn't know that bash treated the asterisk like that. a little
better for my purposes though (the problem had to do with filenames or
directory names with spaces in them) is to add double quotes where
necessary, e.g.
for var in *;do echo "$var";done
of course i usually do more than just echo "$var", the echo is just
for demonstration purposes. but putting the $var in double quotes
preserves directory or file names that have spaces in them.
thanks for the pointer. is there no "ls" way to do this though?
using ls is just more logical, using * that way is magical. and
eventually i forget magic.
tiger
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