[prog] [Bash] script question

[Cliff Crawford]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:01:48AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> The other possible problem is in:
> 
> for file in $maildir
> 
> since $maildir = ~shuyingw/mail
> 
> $file will only contain that value.  What you need there is something like
> 
> cd $maildir
> for file in `/bin/ls`
> 
> Note the use of /bin/ls rather than ls alone.  This will bypass any "ls
> --color" type aliases which will produce odd characters in the filenames.

You can also do:

for file in $maildir/*

although then $file will contain the complete path of the file,
instead of just the filename.  But that shouldn't be a problem for
this script.


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