[clue-tech] Bash script question

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Tom,

> > I have a shell script that does something like this:
> > 
> > for file in `ls`
> > do
> > 
> > However, I would rather be able to pipe a list of items into the script, 
> > instead of relying always on ls:
> > 
> > ls | myscript
> > 
> > Is this possible?
> > 
> 
> 
> Sure:
> 
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
>   # myscript
>   while read file ; do
>      echo got $file
>   done
> 
> 
> use as:
> 
>   ls |  myscript

Will this work if the files have spaces in the names?  I didn't try
it of course, just wondering.

Thanks,
Jim

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