Re: OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I use a little bash code over and over again.
> Its a while loop.
>
> locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
> ls -l $line;
> done
>
> It has many uses and it doesnt have a limit like xargs.
> I found out about xargs but started having problems that it could not
> solve so I came up with this!
You can do the same thing with xargs. Look at the -i option.
It's also good practice to quote "$line" like so.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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