Re: ls returning file list as one big string

Duh! You are right: in a fresh shell this works correctly. I must inadvertently have mucked with IFS in another script earlier. Thanks! -- O.L. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: ls returning file list as one big string

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/21/2007 4:26 PM: >> I am unable to reproduce this. Perhaps you can paste the entire contents >> of a directory in question? > > $ cd /c/Java/j2sdk1.5.0/src/java/util/jar > > $ for i in `\ls *.java`; do echo \"$i\";

Re: ls returning file list as one big string

for i in *.java; do sed -e "$i"; done Thanks, I hadn't thought of getting rid of the ls; this works. I am unable to reproduce this. Perhaps you can paste the entire contents of a directory in question? $ cd /c/Java/j2sdk1.5.0/src/java/util/jar $ for i in `\ls *.java`; do echo \"$i\"; done

Re: ls returning file list as one big string

-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 s

ls returning file list as one big string

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 $i; done fails with "File too long". Once can prove it with for i in `\ls *.java`; do echo \"$i\"; done which will retur