On 8/17/2010 7:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I have a collection of yearly top 100 Billboard mp3s in this format
(all one line - sorry if it wraps):
/archive/Multimedia/Audio/Music/Billboard Top USA Singles/1980-028
Kenny Loggins - This Is It.mp3
I want to create symbolic links to the top 30
Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net writes:
It finally occurred to me that I needed the shell to see a new line as
the delimiter and not whitespace. Then a simple search revealed my
answer:
O=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en \n\b)
do stuff
IFS=$O
Old IFS value can be preserved by using `local'