On Tuesday 01 July 2003 9:46 am, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, > to play all mp3s in the current directory: > > for file in `ls` > do > mpg123 $file > done > > ...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any > spaces in them. If my directory contained: > > Aerosmith - Walk This Way.mp3 > (They Might Be Giants) - Istanbul.mp3 > Pink Floyd - The Wall.mp3 >
I'm far from beeng an expert but I thing that you need to do is change the Internal Field Separator IFS to a new line (the default is space). It goes: #Setting the Internal Field Separator to '\n' IFS=' ' for a in `ls`; do mpg123 $a; done Good Luck Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
