Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:44:49 +0100 From: Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help With 'for' Loop Message-ID: <43500AB1.5050907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <435007F3.8000106@mykitchentable.net> References: <435007F3.8000106@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Sorry to be such a pest today. I'm working on a sh script that uses a > for loop. To test, I've written the following: > > for i in `/usr/bin/find /multimedia/Pictures -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname > "*.gif" -print` > do > echo -e "\n$i" > done > > The first line 'find' returns is "/multimedia/Pictures/1998 > Christmas/April01.JPG" > > Yet 'echo $i' only returns "/multimedia/Pictures/1998", stopping at the > first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the whole string > that 'find' returns? If so, how? > > Thanks, > > Drew > Actually, ignore that one. Wouldn't work like I thought it would :-(
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