Re: [Help-bash] (no subject)

[John McKown]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:33:00AM -0500, John McKown wrote:
> > ​I will agree that your method is superior. However, mine does work. At
> > least on my Linux system (Fedora 25)
> >
> > $ IFS="" lista=$(cat list)
> > $ echo $lista
> > hello
> > world
>
> Wronger and wronger.
>
> wooledg:~$ printf '*\n' > list
> wooledg:~$ IFS="" lista=$(cat list)
> wooledg:~$ echo $lista
> [ { 0.1 0400_0001.pdf 1 11412687.html 11412687.pdf 11412859.html
> 11412859.pdf 11412879.html 11412879-mod.html 11412879-mod.pdf 11412879.pdf
> 11412939.html 11412939.pdf 11421107.html 11421107.pdf 11423576.pdf 12.bash
> 1429_001.pdf .....
>
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf14
>
> Looks like I have a few junk files I can rm.
>
​​
​I concede your point. I had not considered shell file globbing, just
"regular" characters.​




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