Re: Need some shell scripting help

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Even if the answer isn't, the question is simple: "How do I make this
> work?"

As a one-liner:

ls | ( while read item ; do echo $item ; done )

Or using a shell function:

dosomething() {
	while read item ; do
		echo $item
	done
}

ls | dosomething

Wichert.

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