Re: Bash question

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote:

> So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only by
> newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the whole line,
> and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space?

This has been asked and answered a few times in the past.  There are
several ways to do it.  Here is one:

   #!/bin/sh
   IFS=$'\n'

   for FILE in `ls -1`; do
      echo $FILE
   done
   
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Jamin W. Collins