Re: Bash question

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:
> This is a general shell-scripting question:
> 
> In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
> 
> for file in `ls`
> do
>  #stuff
> done
> 
> How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file?

There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of
"#stuff", namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at
this document written by a friend of mine:

  http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/04/shell.html

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]