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Re: ls returning file list as one big string
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, lefevrol at yahoo dot com
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:11:02 -0600
- Subject: Re: ls returning file list as one big string
- References: <f7ttjj$h7q$1@sea.gmane.org>
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According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/21/2007 3:21 PM:
> As the subject says, ls returns the file list as one big string for some
> directories but not others. One sign of that is that, e.g.,
>
> for i in `\ls *.java`; do sed -e $i; done
Why not do something that uses less typing, fewer processes, and is less
likely to overflow max command line lengths, and at the same time is
robust to spaces in the filenames?
for i in *.java; do sed -e "$i"; done
> for i in `\ls *.java`; do echo \"$i\"; done
>
> which will return. e.g.,
>
> "FirstFile.java
> SecondFIle.java"
I am unable to reproduce this. Perhaps you can paste the entire contents
of a directory in question?
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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