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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] UNIX FOR loop to read a variable with multiple values Post 302740939 by jhilmil on Friday 7th of December 2012 07:20:41 AM
Old 12-07-2012
My variable looks like this

Code:
 
f2d=$(find ./ -type d ! -name . -prune -o -mtime +$NUM_DAYS -name '*.dat' )
 
echo "Files to delete =$f2d"

Output is

Code:
 
Files to delete =./fgh.dat
./ggg.dat
./sss.dat
./test_2

And the FOR loop is still not working. Please advise.
 

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