On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > mrvn@dual:/tmp/bar% bash > > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > > . > > ./a > > b > > No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'echo "$i"'. there:[~] /bin/bash mdz@there:~$ foo="a b" mdz@there:~$ for x in $foo; do echo "$x"; done a b -- - mdz