problem creating bash loop through svn list output

[Bram Kuijper]

Hi all,

I hope this question is not too specific for a ubuntu mailing list, but 
it is about simple bash shell scripting. I cannot get bash to properly 
loop through the output of a svn list command, like this:

svnlist=`svn list file:///myrepository/directory`

for i in "$svnlist"; do
	echo "$i";
	echo "nextline";
done;

However, this does not work at all, the variable $svnlist is not 
splitted into separate items, but just passed as a whole list to $i, so 
the output looks like:

file1
file2
file2
nextline

instead of the desired output:
file1
nextline
file2
nextline
file3
nextline


Why does bash looping appear to seamlessly work with commands like ls(), 
but does it choke on svn list?

thanks in advance,

Bram kuijper