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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looping through filenames with spaces Post 302274541 by KenJackson on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 11:33:22 PM
Old 01-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson
Each element of a pipeline is executed in its own subshell and therefore cannot affect the parent shell.
Oh. How terribly inconvenient.

Oh, well. I may have stumbled upon a different solution:
Code:
$!/bin/sh
VAR="$(ls | tr '\n' :)"
echo "VAR=$VAR"

If I have files "A A", "B B" and "C C", I'll get this result:
Code:
VAR=A A:B B:C C:

Now I can work with VAR like this:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
while [ -n "$VAR" ]; do
    f="${VAR%%:*}"
    VAR="${VAR#*:}"
    # process "$f" ...
done

 

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