On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:45:26PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: > Hi, > > I keep running into this particular gap in my scripting, and hope someone can > clear it up for me. > > FILES=$( ls SOMEWHERE ) #or find or grep, etc > > for FILE in $FILES; do SOMETHING; done > > I often find that if there are spaces in the names of anything in $FILES, the > execution of SOMETHING occurs separately for each word in the name, producing > unexpected results. > > Quoting doesn't seem to help. Are there ways to deal with this? >
Hi John You can overwrite Bashs internal field seperator variable (IFS) to newline: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test1$ IFS=' > ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test1$ for f in `ls`; do echo $f; done test test 1 So Bash will stop treating whitespaces as list seperator. Cheers Beat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
