On 25/06/11 08:05, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:34:54AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule" >> is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an >> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. >> > > You won't get anything authoritative from me, but I have noticed traps > for the unwary, for example: > > $ mkdir newdir; cd newdir > $ touch 'one space' 'and two spaces' > $ for jim in *; do echo $jim; done > and two spaces > one space > > So far, so good, but: > > $ for jim in `ls`; do echo $jim; done > and > two > spaces > one > space > > which is not what was intended. > > Cheers, > David > >
man bash /IFS ??? Cheers -- I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullsh#t. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e056e79.2010...@gmail.com
