[Gllug] Re: bash string confusion

[Craig Millar]

On 06/07/05 16:42 +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> cd IMAGEDIR
> ls  'file-containing-the-list'  |   script
> 
> 
> where script is an executable script-file something like:
> 
> while read FILE;
> do
> if [ ! -e $FILE.jpg ]
> then
> echo "$FILE" >> listing-file
> fi
> done

problem solved but i did try this in a test directory which is similar but
much smaller to the images dir. it returns only the string
file-containing-the-list in listing-file

thanks, craig
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