Craig Dickson wrote: > 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.
<grins sheepishly> I can't believe I did that. Still, from other's replies I'm not the only one. And as I dont use TTF my options are to set a different font as a resource. Any suggestions? John P Foster