On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > there:[~] /bin/bash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ foo="a b" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for x in $foo; do echo "$x"; done > ^^^^ > > a > > b > > $ foo="a b"; for x in "$foo"; do echo "$x" : $x; done > a b : a b
That misses the whole point, which was to iterate over a list of items, some of which could contain whitespace. -- - mdz
