Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:05:26 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With 'for' Loop Message-ID: <20051014200526.GP29905@localdomain> In-Reply-To: <435007F3.8000106@mykitchentable.net> References: <435007F3.8000106@mykitchentable.net>
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:33:07PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
[...]
> 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?
Bourne-style for loops use <space> as the delimiter by default. To
change this behavior, modify the IFS variable (which is mentioned
but not explained in the sh manpage):
$ OLDIFS=$IFS # probably want to remember this value
$ IFS=:
$ export $IFS
$ for i in $PATH; do
echo $i
done
/home/will/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin
/opt/
/usr/games/
$ IFS=$OLDIFS # set it back to normal
$ export $IFS
$ for i in $PATH; do
echo $i
done
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/:/usr/games/
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