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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:34:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with basename
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:

> But if i write the functon like follows:
> 
>     function check-el-compile ()
>     {
> 	for file in `ls *.el`; do
>             # same as above.
> 
> then the basename call doesn´t work, i.e. it always returns $file.
> It seems that the output of ls contains "something" which confuses basename?!

ls outputs all sorts of control characters, but those *should* be
suppressed in this case (haven't checked however, so may be wrong). 
Try:

 	for file in *.el; do
          # use $file
	done

instead. There is no reason to invoke another program to do what the shell
itself is fully capable of.

Regards,
Mumit



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