On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:38:03PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> $ for foo in `command outputting a list of filenames`
>
> should *always* be replaced by
>
> $ said command | while read foo; do ...
Hm. I like that better in general. Processing doesn't have to wait for the
entirety of the command's output to be generated.
Thanks.
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