[ILUG] Spaces in arguments in a bash for loop

[John Gill]

> 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.
> 
 
Of course you can save another 6 key strokes with:

grep ding fonts | grep -v TT | while  read l; do
  echo "$l"
done

Setting IFS is fine.. until you forget you've set it to 
something weird.

John