From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ichi@ihug.co.nz
Subject: Re: Variable Quoting
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:23:50 +0000
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To: Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>
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Paul Furness wrote:
> 
> Path="My Documents/"
> for FILENAME in ls "${Path}"
> do
>      cp "${Path}${Filename}" "/tmp"
> done

I think you mean:
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Path="My Documents/"
for FILENAME in `ls "${Path}"`
do
    cp "${Path}${FILENAME}" "/tmp"
done
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Note the changes in lines two and four.


Cheers,
Steven

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