David C. Rankin wrote:

On 05/26/2010 02:05 AM, Jon Clausen wrote:

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Haven't tested it, but I'm pretty sure files with whitespace will break this, but you get the idea

That's what IFS=$'\n' is for :p

Since filename can have newlines in them, that won't really help you in all cases. The array counting method will work nevertheless, as no shell word interpretation is done that way. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org