Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: > I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios > but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. > > ls *flv > > returns this: > > Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv > > But in a bash for loop it doesn't work. > > for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done > > returns this: > > Jorge > Drexler > - > Al > otro > Lado > del > Río.flv > > Anybody know how to keep $f intact?
Look at the use of the IFS internal variable in bash and do something
like:
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done
Steve
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