A sysadmins guide to Bash

[crosscourt]

Look here, www.lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=258896

[chris]

I really disagree with his line "for file in $(ls)". Of course this should be "for file in *".

[crosscourt]

You might want to contact him and let him know.

[dai_trying]

I think that example was used just to illustrate why you shouldn't use back-ticks rather than saying it is the best command to use for a file list, personally I tend to use python when I want to get those sort of results and sometimes I even source a python script to get the filenames (and paths if required) and parse it back into the bash script but I find it a bit tedious so usually just use python for the whole thing.