[PLUG] File renaming scripts?

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 19:49, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg at pdxlinux.org> writes:
> 
> Karl> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:13, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >> See?  /bin/sh isn't that dumb. :)
> 
> Karl> Hmmm.  What shell is that?  Does POSIX mandate that behavior? 
> 
> It worked that way in the V7 One True Shell.  Every Bourne-like shell
> after that has always said "IFS happens before globbing".  Even
> csh-like shells work that way.  I don't know what shell you're using
> that doesn't work that way... maybe you're thinking of COMMAND.COM
> or something.

I've actually never TRIED to do that -- I misunderstood how it works. 
Good to know that I can iterate over the results of a glob, and get file
names with spaces and stuff in them without needing special handling.

If I interpolate those into a string, THEN they'll get split, right?