On Tue, July 01 at 2:46 AM EDT Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? You'll probably get a million responses from this as someone asks it about every 3 months. I guess the simplest answer is to protect your expanded variable name with double quotes. for file in `ls` do mpg123 "$file" done HTH Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]