HowTo: Use bash For Loop In One Line - nixCraft: Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog For

Explains how to use the Bash one-Liner in UNIX / Linux / BSD / Apple OS X command prompt. ... For the very rare case yout got file names with a leading dash: for i in *; do echo $i; done [ will not show files with leading dash ]

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