luiscolorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I get when some file names have spaces: > > for i in `my-program` > do > echo $i > done > > It echoes the following: > > sony > apple > hewlett > packard
Unquoted `` expansions are split into words using $IFS. So if you only want to split on newlines: old_ifs="$IFS" IFS=' ' for i in `my-program`; do ...; done IFS="$old_ifs" paul
