Re: Whitespace in filenames
- From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:28:57 -0500
On 2006-02-27, soup_or_power@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have inherited some code that looks like this:
if [ ! -f $file ]
then
echo "Error Can't clean >$file<. May have spaces in the
name?"
else
mv "$file" DEL.$file
fi
Quote your variables:
if [ -f "$file" ]
then
mv "$file" "DEL.$file"
else
echo "Error: >$file< does not exist"
fi
I have these questions:
a) can it be rewritten as if [ ! -f "$file" ]...
b) change the mv as mv "$file" "DEL.$file"
Exactly.
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