Miche writes:
> Repeat-By:
> touch file\ \ with\ more\ than\ one\ spaces\ \ \ in\ sequence
> ls -1 file*
> for a in file* ; do echo $a ; done
Insufficient quoting. The expansion of $a undergoes word splitting, you
have to quote it to suppress that.
for a in file* ; do
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