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You don't really need to export this. All you want is a shell variable.

If you don't put the text in quotes, it won't know it's all supposed to be in the variable and interpret them line by line....

Hi Vijay, this is called parameter expansion (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_02).

Not sure what OS and/or shell you're using, but this worked for me:


for x in file*;do dos2unix -n $x ${x}_new;done
dos2unix: converting file file1 to file file1_new in UNIX format ......

It always helps to post what Operating System and version you have and what Shell you are using. We can't check your syntax.


Right $FILE and $FILE_I are valid names for two different environment...

-lt doesn't know (or care) if it's a date in that numeric format. So long as it's a number. If one or both of them is / are blank, then 0 or 00010101 makes no difference.

And, the "default" (if...