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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sh `for' (was Help with strings in Bourne shell)
Message-ID: <17197@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 05:51:50 GMT
References: <19311@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <19311@adm.BRL.MIL> mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael
J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes:
>The problem is with the "for" loop. The "for" construct uses a list
>of arguments which are words separated by tabs/spaces.

Not quite:  `for' splits its list according to $IFS.  For instance:

	IFS=@
	l="color = red@size = big"
	for i in $l; do wc $i; done

(I use `wc' as a program that shows exactly what its arguments are;
echo puts each argument on the same line, which makes things hard to
see.)
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