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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For loop - coping with an asterisk item Post 302135165 by PaulUrwin on Thursday 6th of September 2007 08:47:14 AM
Old 09-06-2007
Question For loop - coping with an asterisk item

How do you get a for loop to cope with one of the items being an asterisk?


for myResult in `echo "*"`
do
echo "$myResult"
done



The asterisk is returning a file listing in the PWD.

The same result can be got from:


for myResult in "*"
do
echo "$myResult"
done



How to I combat this? Smilie

Cheers.
 

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BLOCKDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual						      BLOCKDIAG(1)

NAME
blockdiag - generate block-diagram image file from spec-text file. SYNOPSIS
blockdiag [options] file DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the blockdiag commands. blockdiag is a program that generate block-diagram image file from spec-text file. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the SEE ALSO. --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help Show summary of options -a, --antialias Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter -c FILE, --config=FILE read configurations from FILE -o FILE write diagram to FILE -f FONT, --font=FONT use FONT to draw diagram --fontmap=FONT use FONTMAP file to draw diagram -s, --separate Separate diagram images for each group -T TYPE Output diagram as TYPE format --nodoctype Do not output doctype definition tags (SVG only) --no-transparency do not make transparent background of diagram (PNG only) SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/blockdiag/build/html/index.html AUTHOR
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