Apparently, on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:04:38PM -0500, Sunny Dubey wrote: > Hey, > > how come the followind doesn't seem to work ... > > > for i in `ls -1 /some/dir` ; do > cat /some/dir/"$i" >> /usr/fruits.txt > done > > cat just gives me the odd error of files not being found, however, I can't > see why the files wouldn't be found ... hrrm ... > > thanks much for any info you might provide >
The IFS includes a space by default so, for example, "some file.txt" would cause cat to look for /some/dir/some /some/dir/file.txt Set IFS to just new lines before running the for loop and you should be fine -- Tim Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
