[ILUG] Spaces in arguments in a bash for loop

[Niall O Broin]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:15:40AM +0000, John Gill wrote:

> Another way round this is to use read.  Try something like this:
> 
> grep ding fonts | grep -v TT | while  read line; do
>   echo "$line"
> done

Excellent answer John ! To my mind, it has the benefit of being a little
neater than the solution using IFS, less typing (only two keystrokes more
than my original non-working for loop solution - I checked :-) ), and just
somehow handier to use on the fly, which is how I usually do these things.


Regards,

Niall