a little shell problem

[Bill Warner]

have you tried escaping the newlines with a backslash?

CLIENTS="~joe/foo \
          ~blow/foo \
          ~schmo/blah"

Bill
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:48, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a script (in ksh, not bash, but I believe
> the problem is the same in either shell) where I have
> to write some files to a number of login directories.
> Putting a list of targets in a variable near the top
> like this turns off tilde expansion:
> 
> CLIENTS="~joe/foo
>          ~blow/foo
>          ~schmo/blah"
> 
> The list of clients is potentially rather long, and I'd
> rather set it in an easily modifiable list near the
> front of the script and then later be able to do
> 
> for client in $CLIENTS
> do
>   stuff
> done
> 
> rather than
> 
> for client in ~joe/foo \
>               ~blow/foo \
> 	      ~shmo/blah
> do
>   stuff
> done
> 
> Surely this is an easy thing, but I've got a mental
> block. Can someone help me get my blinders off? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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Bill Warner
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