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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting new to shell scripting: whats wrong with my if loop Post 302080712 by reborg on Thursday 20th of July 2006 08:53:11 AM
Old 07-20-2006
No, you are misunderstaning what $file is, try putting echo $file instead of rm -i $file to see if it's an empty string.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for file in $HOME/[ A-Za-z ]*
do
   echo $file
done

Is $file an empty string?
 

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