For loops, Spaces in values

[shaun etherton]

Andrew Reid wrote:
> Suppose I have a program that returns a list of files, but those  files 
> contain spaces:
> 
> /tmp/My File One.txt
> /tmp/My File Two.txt
> 
> If I try and do a for loop over it, like:
> 
> for i in `listdirs` do
> echo $i
> done
> 
> (where list dirs is the program that generates the aforementioned  
> output), I get the following output from the loop:
> 
> My
> File
> One.txt
> My
> File
> Two.txt
> 
> So, how do I get the for loop to iterate over my list, but not  delimit 
> that list by spaces?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>    - andrew
> 

I think you need to change the delimeter from a space to a newline 
character. I can't remember the name of the variable though. :)

IFS I think..

cheers,
- shaun