Matt Hyne wrote: > > Unfortunately this then treats the entire 'ls' as a single element and prints that >when I print FILE. > > ie the whole of the ls output is printed between the >xxx< quotes.
Well yeah, because the for statement is only seeing one argument - "`ls -l`". Remove the quotes around this for it to work. > > Matt > > At Friday, 26/10/2001 03:24 PM (+1000), George Vieira wrote: > >try this > > > >for FILE in "`ls -1`"; do echo ">$FILE<"; done -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
