Re: [tlug] Adding text to the beginning of a file

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:29:58PM +0900, Edward Wright wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:06:40PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know any way offhand to get file names with spaces to work
> > under for.  I tried setting IFS to newline and using `ls` instead of
> > *, but that seems to confuse bash completely in trying to parse the
> > for statement.
> 
> This works for me:
> 
> export IFS=$'\n'
> for file in `ls`;do echo $file; done

I didn't know that one.  I do find that setting it null also works

export IFS=""

With yours, I found that mistyping, and leaving out the $ set n as the
separator.  

touch 1 2 3 "stupid file name"

export IFS='\n'   [note the typo]

for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done
1
2
3
stupid file
ame

:)


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