4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
10:56 a.m.
Brian Dunn <job17and9(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
for i in `ls *.mp3`; do
That won't work if the filenames contain spaces (since the shell will
split ls's output on spaces), and it's needlessly inefficient. It's
better to say:
for i in *.mp3; do
or if you really do want to use the output of a command, then:
find . -name '*.mp3' | while read i; do
(Not supporting spaces in filenames in the modern world is silly --
particularly for music files! Newlines I'm less concerned about...)
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Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>