john wrote: > 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 > > > > because $i contains lines like: > drw-r--r-- 2 sunny sunny 12345 Oct 23 14:09 hello.c > which is very unlikely to be a filename.
No, it doesn't. You might want to switch to a display font that distinguishes between a lowercase L and a number 1. If you have TrueType support in X, I recommend Microsoft's free "Andale Mono" font for anything monospaced; it has superb on-screen readability, and you can't mistake a one for a lowercase L, nor a zero for an uppercase O. Sunny: You don't need to specify -1 when the output of ls is redirected, as it is in this case. ls defaults to one entry per line when stdout is not a tty. Also, someone else pointed out that you can set IFS to not break arguments on spaces; that should do the trick. Craig
