display full line instead of single word in for loop
 

I am brand new to linux, and trying to do a few things with scripts. My question is in using a for loop, how I can get it to display a full line instead of a single word. For example:

for file in `ls -l`:do
echo $file
done

If anyone knows how to get the $file variable to display a full line instead of a single word I would greatly appreciate it.

Set the field seperator to a newline before the loop:
IFS="
"
for file in `ls -l`;do
echo $file
done

Thanks!!!
 

Thanks a bunch.

I am too embarrassed to tell you how much time I wasted trying to get that result.

Thanks again!

Re: Thanks!!!
 

No problem - took me a while the first time too :D