On Sun, 20 May 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process >>multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. >> >>for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done > ^^^ ^^^ > >You need grave accents here.
Ouch! You don't need _any_ quotes in this case, sorry. What I was trying to say was that you shouldn't confuse accents and single quotes as they have different meanings in bash. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
