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Adam Sampson wrote:

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> Brian Dunn  writes:

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>> for i in `ls *.mp3`; do

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> That won't work if the filenames contain spaces (since the shell will

> split ls's output on spaces), and it's needlessly inefficient. It's

> better to say:

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>   for i in *.mp3; do

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> or if you really do want to use the output of a command, then:

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>   find . -name '*.mp3' | while read i; do

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> (Not supporting spaces in filenames in the modern world is silly --

> particularly for music files! Newlines I'm less concerned about...)

>

>

Well, I stand corrected I've never used that while syntax before.  It

looks useful. thanks.