On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: the answer is trivial (RTFM, Q14)
http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#14
echo "directories=$directories" gives directories=A|Flash\ Player|foo
don't go putting '\' in a filename. Instead stop the shell from doing filename expansion
# directories=A|Flash Player|foo # set -f; IFS="|"; for directory in $directories; do echo $directory; cd $directory; cd -; done cd's just fine to Flash Player Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
