Hi Tom (and others) >> Ok, I've got most of it. The last part is more of a bash problem I think as >> most of the files have spaces in them. Not my idea, it's how the files were >> delivered to me. :-( >> >> So the command line: >> for i in `ls *.txt` ; do ./add-pre-nl.sh $i; done >> does not cut it as it chops the filesnames up and issues each part to the >> add-pre-nl script. :-( >> If I just use >> ./add-pre-nl.sh file\ name\ with\ spaces.txt >> it will produce the result I want.
> Use "$i" for the filenames with spaces to remain whole. Hmmm, that simple. Ok, thanks guys/gals, that did the trick. Turns out is I do not need the ls thing either just: for i in *.txt ; do ./add-pre-nl.sh "$i"; done Bonno -- 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/002301cc7509$368bd170$a3a37450$@blok...@tio.nl
