Help With 'for' Loop
Mark Cullen
mark.r.cullen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 12:44:05 PDT 2005
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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