On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:17:47 +0700, Ivan wrote in message <[🔎] 86ehzhsp1g.fsf@gray.siamics.net>: > Whitespace is not a problem as long as one remembers to > double-quote Shell $ubstitutions, like: > > for i in a b c ; do ..or, e.g.: for i in $(ls /path/to/files/*.txt ) ; do > txt2pdf -input "${i}.txt" -out "${i}.pdf" > done ..disclaimer: I've only used the alleged obsolete back-tick way. ;o)