On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:48 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> for directory in "$(env | grep -E '^PROGRAM(FILES(\(X86\))?|W6432)=' | cut -d '=' -f 2 | sort -u)" >> do >> test -n "$directory" && >> test -x "$directory/$winmerge_exe" && >> echo "$directory/$winmerge_exe" && >> break >> done > > This ain't gonna work, because the output of the pipe won't be split > because of the quotes around the command substitution, so $directory will > hold everything. Simply loosing those quotes is not good either, because That's what I thought at first, too, but simply trying it out proved me wrong (again, in both MSYS1/2): $ for d in "$(env | grep -Ei '^PROGRAM(FILES(\(X86\))?|W6432)=' | cut -d '=' -f 2- | sort -u)"; do echo "$d"; done C:\Program Files C:\Program Files (x86) Note that the path, although they are containing spaces, are on separate lines. -- Sebastian Schuberth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html