On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:46:58AM -0500, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only by > newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the whole line, > and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space?
This has been asked and answered a few times in the past. There are several ways to do it. Here is one: #!/bin/sh IFS=$'\n' for FILE in `ls -1`; do echo $FILE done -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]