[geeks] ksh for loop question

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, May 10, 2002 at 18:38:31 (-0500), doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] ksh for loop question
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:12:09AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc had the audacity to opine:
> > On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:54, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > ok, i have a list of files that unfortunately have spaces in them.  i'd like
> > > to get this list of files from a server using wget, so i was looking to just
> > > use a for loop to go and get them all, for example:
> > > 
> > > for files in `cat file_list.txt`; do
> > >   wget "http://www.server.com/$files"
> 
>  cat file_list.txt| awk print '{wget "http://www.server.com/" $1}' | sh

You sure didn't test that very well did you!  :-)

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