[HPADM] ls works but when compress files using for loop - got problem

From: Ruby Domalanta (rdomalan@dairy-farm.com.ph)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 06:15:10 EST


Hi Gurus,

Has anyone experience this before? How come it cannot locate the file, I
even tried to use the full path but getting the same error " no such file or
directory"?

[root@ftp_depot]# for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done
etc.tar
optscript.tar
usrlocal.tar
varnamed.tar

[root@ftp_depot]# for i in `ls`; do echo $i; compress $i; done
etc.tar
etc.tar: No such file or directory
optscript.tar
optscript.tar: No such file or directory
usrlocal.tar
usrlocal.tar: No such file or directory
varnamed.tar
varnamed.tar: No such file or directory

: No such file or directory

Thanks in advance,
Ruby Ann Domalanta

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