On the topic of BASH loops

[William Park]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> The recent discussion got me thinking about BASH loops. I use them ad nauseam 
> to download radio programs of certain dates and times from radio station 
> archives (such as Pacifica). 
> 
> The biggest issue for me was that if I had multiple dates, I could not place 
> them in an array. For example:
> 
> dates=("Mon Aug 16" "Tue Aug 17" "Wed Aug 18")
> 
> for i in ${dates[@]} ; do 
>     echo ${i}
> done

Try 
    for i in "${date[@]}"; do
	echo "${i}"
    done

Without the double quote, shell is splitting the line on whitespace,
like
    for i in Mon Aug 16 ...

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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