bash limits ?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:

>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>>> 
>>> The exact command I'm using is:
>>> 
>>> SORTED=$(find $TMPDIR/* -type f|grep -E [0-9]+|cut -d'/' -f4|sort)
>> 
>> What error message is it giving you?
>
> Maybe I did not make myself clear: I do not get an error, some filenames 
> simply get eaten is $SORTED is long enough. They are in $SORTED (I checked) 
> but after I submit $SORTED to for ... they are gone. I will have to check 
> again. Maybe I'm just wasting time and should go directly for a Perl 
> solution.

     Maybe you should post the exact code that is causing the
     problem. The problem is not with "for".

     Do you get different results with:

for file in $SORTED
do
   printf "%s\n" "$file"
done

     And:

printf "%s\n" $SORTED

     If so, what are the differences?

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