Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
[snip]
> 
> locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
> 	ls -l $line;
> done

Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once, 
although you can compensate for it.  I prefer backticks because you can 
pipe the whole thing to less (although you can pipe a for loop to less, 
it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for 
example.

Tomato, tomato.  For loop is nice for somethings.

Also starting a process per file might be more expensive than a single 
process with lots of args (but not in this case).