On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 3:18 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > There's one mistake in the above even before looking at the contents of > > "#stuff", namely that you shouldn't be using ls here. Have a look at > > this document written by a friend of mine: > > > http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/04/shell.html > > Thanks for this article, it's cool. > > It's true in this case you wouldn't use ls but *. However, there are other > times when you want your loop to iterate over the results of other program > other that ls, and the question remains valid to these cases.
That's true. In that case the approach exemplified by 'find -print0 | xargs -0' is the safest one I know. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
