ok a silly question off topic....

[Tim Waugh]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:04:52PM -0500, stephan schutter wrote:

> I fidured I could... but why would this not work for me?
> 
> ls -lh |grep drw | \ while read i; do \ (tar -zcvf $i.tgz $i)

You forgot to put the 'while read ...' bit in a ( subshell ).

Tim.
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