Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:42:33 +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: <43500A29.4020008@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 $i' only returns "/multimedia/Pictures/1998", stopping at the
> first space. Is it possible to get 'i' to represent the whole string
> that 'find' returns? If so, how?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
>
Wild guess.. I would say try something like this...
for i in "`/usr/bin/find /home/mrboo -iname \"*.jpg\" -or -iname
\"*.gif\" -print"
`
do
echo -e "\n$i"
done
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