Use either ls -b (quote nongraphic characters) or ls -Q (enclose in double quotes) for passing the files to the shell.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > This is a general shell-scripting question: > > In a for loop which runs through all files, as in: > > for file in `ls` > do > #stuff > done > > How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play > all > mp3s in the current directory: > > for file in `ls` > do > mpg123 $file > done > > ...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any > spaces in them. If my directory contained: > > Aerosmith - Walk This Way.mp3 > (They Might Be Giants) - Istanbul.mp3 > Pink Floyd - The Wall.mp3 > > Then the preceding instructions first try to play "Aerosmith", then > "-", then "Walk", then "This", then "Way.mp3", then "(They"... you get the > idea. All of which fail, and this could lead to dangerous results if you're > doing something other than mpg123 to it, like "rm", and there were also a > file simply called "Aerosmith". > > So how can one have the for loop separate the elements of the list only by > newlines ("\n"), filling the contents of "file" with the whole line, > and not separate by spaces, tabs, or other white space? > > Thx, > > -- > Stephan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
