On Tuesday, Oct 10th 2006 at 13:06 -0600, quoth Kim Lux: =>On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 13:44 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> On Tuesday, Oct 10th 2006 at 18:20 +0100, quoth Paul Howarth: =>> That could be a loss of functionality for what kim might have intended. If =>> the intent was to specify that the globbing needs to happen in the script =>> then =>> =>> for eachFile in $1 =>> do =>> ... =>> done => =>This doesn't work either. Calling myscript with "myscript *" results =>in $1 being file1 and then "for eachFile in $1" is "for file1" and then =>only the first file gets processed. => =>> would do it but the invocation would require single quotes. => =>Please explain this. You lost me here. scriptname '*' Then the script would be responsible for performing its own globbing. Try it. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
