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Yes, the shell expands the wild card, but it does not somehow pass the expanded result as an input line to itself, it does not pass anything. It would only do that if it would pass it to another...

Hi Ivo, this is not correct, there are no line length limitations to a for loop, which is part of the shell syntax, so the limitations of passing parameters to a subprocess do not apply.

The...

Why use a shell loop? Try with find's -exec

find . -iname '*.jar' -exec jar -tf {} \; > cls.dat


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Actually it does, because Ravinder used double quotes around the variable expansion...