Re: [SLE] Bash scripting help

Jim Cunning wrote:

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 09:55, David Crouch wrote:


HI all.

I used to know how to do this, but apparently I've forgotten :( I know
I can use a for loop to process all the files in a directory, but I
can't for the life of me remember how to do it. I have a bunch of
archived files that I want to unarchive. I've tried for I in *rar:do
'unrar x $I.rar':done, but that doesn't work and I can't seem to find
the right man page with the syntax. Any help?



for f in *rar; do unrar x $f; done

See 'man bash' then enter '/^\s*for/ and n (next) until you find the
explanation you want.


I tried both your version and Lawrence's and have the same problem. My rar files have spaces in them and I think that is the problem. The script is only pulling the first word before the spaces.

-David

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