On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:36:26PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do
Please don't teach beginners to do for loops like this. It's broken in
various ways. Just do:
for FILE in *"$1" ; do
Being a self taught script writer I just have to ask what are the
'various ways' in which the first form is broken?
The biggest one I can see is that it spawns an entire process when none
is needed.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Duly noted, makes perfect sense. Bad habits are hard ones to break.
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