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Trying to learn to use bash instead of applescript.

I am writing a script to copy files to new directories based upon their file type. everything works if I set the destination to an existing known directory on my desktop. However, this will be used by multiple users on various machines and I need to create a new directory at the current users desktop then use the path to the new directory for the destination folder.

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Rick Davis

Try using something like that:

oh, no! don't ever use this form :

you'd rather use or globs

I suppose you meant of how the for loop parses the files with the whitespaces. It does not parse them correctly. Another approach is to use the while loop instead.