Re: Spaces in file names

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:31:45 -0600, Leslie Rhorer wrote:

OK, here's the problem. I need to automatically manipulate the file names
of a number of files whose filenames have spaces in them.
for file in `ls -1 *`
do
<do stuff>
done

How about something like (untested):

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n'

#IFS is the internal field separator in bash and
#here we set it to be new line only.

for file in $(find . -type f)
do
<stuff with "$file">
done

HTH.
Regards, Dan.
.

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