Re: Spaces in file names

"Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey, that works! Thanks.

But it would be a lot easier to just do this:

#!/bin/bash

for file in * ; do
echo "$file"
done
exit 0

The trick is putting quotes around $file. Using `ls -1 *`
is unnecessary, and so is find.


"Dan Mills" <dmills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:477856c3$0$21094$da0feed9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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