-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/21/2007 3:21 PM: > As the subject says, ls returns the file list as one big string for some > directories but not others. One sign of that is that, e.g., > > for i in `\ls *.java`; do sed -e $i; done
Why not do something that uses less typing, fewer processes, and is less likely to overflow max command line lengths, and at the same time is robust to spaces in the filenames? for i in *.java; do sed -e "$i"; done > for i in `\ls *.java`; do echo \"$i\"; done > > which will return. e.g., > > "FirstFile.java > SecondFIle.java" I am unable to reproduce this. Perhaps you can paste the entire contents of a directory in question? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGooR284KuGfSFAYARApNrAJ9QmXotREJi0Hr0brwFfQZIq6ma+wCdGBoF uqgl7eg+jIrXBc8JM/tEszE= =GJOB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
