nick zeljkovic kppyozizjtsite5com thursday 14 february 2008 2313 david c rankin wrote stumbling around seems include afsn keep loop breaking spaces specifying break newlines spaces filenames spaces wifes digital pictures thing found work without extensive character replacing spaces _ ifs afs need keyword david bolt mentioned script quick oneliner really saving restoring old ifs end rather difficult diagnose failures find example etcinitdalsasound start snippet load_sequencer test load_sequencer yes modprobe q sndseq xload_sequencer xyes r procasoundseqdrivers oldifsifs ifs read x c sbinmodprobe done procasoundseqdrivers ifsoldifs fi end snippet one interesting aside use test xc x little later script earth didnt use instead interesting puzzle z c regards david bolt workaround older version bash uninitialized variables ive use many times best regards nick zeljkovic wed 06 aug 2008 073002 0100 opensuse bash doesnt tldp bash beginners guide loop example work