Consider the following shell script $cat manual_listing.sh #! /bin/sh
# stanza 1 for i in "kama" "raju" "k a m a" "r a j u" do echo $i done # stanza 2 names='kama raju' for i in $names do echo $i done If I run this, I get $./manual_listing.sh kama raju k a m a r a j u kama raju I am wondering if there is a way to rewrite the names variable in stanza2 such that the output from stanza 1 and stanza 2 are the same. thanks in advance raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iv38q5$a33$1...@dough.gmane.org