Bonno Bloksma wrote: > The last part is more of a bash problem I think as most of the files > have spaces in them. Not my idea, it's how the files were delivered > to me. :-( > > So the command line: > for i in `ls *.txt` ; do ./add-pre-nl.sh $i; done
Eww.. Don't say `ls *.txt` there but just say *.txt there. No need
for ls to be there. Just let the shell do it.
> does not cut it as it chops the filesnames up and issues each part to the
> add-pre-nl script. :-(
Add double quotes around the variable to preserve the whitespace.
for i in *.txt ; do ./add-pre-nl.sh "$i"; done
If there are no *.txt files then the file glob won't be expanded,
nothing to expand it to, and then your shell script will get a literal
"*.txt" as an argument. If that minor point is important to you then
check that the file exists and simply break or continue if it does not.
for i in *.txt; do
test -f "$i" || continue
./add-pre-nl.sh "$i"
done
Bob
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