[geeks] ksh for loop question

[Brian Hechinger]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:16:34AM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> 
> Here is a shell script that will do it...

i should smack you on principle. ;)

> #!/bin/sh
> cat file_list.txt | perl -n -e 'system("wget http://www.server.com/$_");'

oops, looks like there are () in the file names as well (friggin windows users)
which blows this up quite nicely. ;)

i really wish it were possible to just get for to do what i want since it would
work.  blah.

-brian
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