For Loops and Space in Names

Dave Ihnat dihnat at dminet.com
Wed Dec 10 02:55:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:31:45PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Yes, but I wasn't talking about using $IFS for records (which is just dandy),
> I was talking about the earlier example on the page for coping with spaces in
> filenames.

Ok.

> BTW, you know that this: ...

Yes, I was doing bad pseudocode; it usually would be something like:

    exec 0</etc/passwd
    while read inline
    do
      ...
    done

or "done </etc/passwd" as you wrote it.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
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