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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