On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:16:02PM +1000, Matt Hyne wrote:

> for FILE in `ls`; do
>         echo "Converting $FILE..."
> done
> 
> Converting xxx...
> Converting yyy...
> Converting zzz.doc...
> 
All of these handle spaces in filenames:

    for i in *; do echo "Converting $i..."; done
    find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 -n1 -iX echo "Converting X..."
    find . -type f -exec echo "Converting {}..." \;


Cheers,

John
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