On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] > > locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do > ls -l $line; > done
Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once, although you can compensate for it. I prefer backticks because you can pipe the whole thing to less (although you can pipe a for loop to less, it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for example. Tomato, tomato. For loop is nice for somethings. Also starting a process per file might be more expensive than a single process with lots of args (but not in this case). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
