On 19-Jan-99 Michael Meskes wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small sh script that does essantially the following: > > variable=`find . -print` > > for file in $variable > do > <some stuff> > done >
try: for file in `find . -print` do ${file} done The braces should help keep the variable consistent. So far I see nothing "bash" here. This is also a valid ksh or ash script. If you leave off the 'function' keyword many supposed bash scripts are valid bourne scripts.