On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:06, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:06:29PM +0300, Denis N. Peplin wrote: > > I try to escape blankspace in filenames by using backslash > > First, i'm test sed expression: > > $ sed 's/ /\\ /g' > > long file name > > long\ file\ name > > > > this ok. > > > > second, include this sed expression in sh command substitution: > > $ filename=`echo "long file name" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'` ; echo $filename > > long file name > > > > with csh all ok, but with Bourne not. is this bug or feature? > > i'm searched in google and only found different instructions about > > escaping variables by hand... > > Escaping inside backticks ` is very tricky. Try this instead: > > $ filename=$(echo "long file name" | sed 's/ /\\ /g'); echo $filename > long\ file\ name > > In /bin/sh, $() is the same construct as ``, see man sh(1). >
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