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tvon
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Joined: 10 Apr 2002
Posts: 46
Location: Baltimore MD, USA
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 Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject: dealing with spaces in "for i in `/bin/ls /some/dir`&qu |
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Normally when I want to deal with the contents of a directory in a shell script, I will do something like
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for i in `/bin/ls /home/tvon/Docs`
do
echo ${i}
done
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This normally works fine, but right now I am dealing with a Windows share and alot of the files/directories have spaces in them, so the result is something like this:
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# ls /home/tvon/Docs
Pittsburgh
Popano Beach
Raleigh
Regina
Richmond
San Diego
San Francisco
# for i in `/bin/ls /home/tvon/Docs`
> do
> echo ${i}
> done
Pittsburgh
Popano
Beach
Raleigh
Regina
Richmond
San
Diego
San
Francisco
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Notice how the directories with spaces in thier names get split into two seperate iterations of the loop? This isnt good for me. I have tried some options to 'ls' but it seems that the "for i in.." loop always breaks on spaces.
Anyone know a way around this? Its a fairly simple thing and I'd hate to have to resort to Perl just because of this...
TIA,
-Tom
p.s. I'd love an email to tvon@gxs.ge.com in reply to this.
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Jeevz
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Joined: 15 Apr 2002
Posts: 195
Location: Boston, MA
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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This works for me:
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for i in /home/Administrator/* /c/*
do
echo ${i}
done
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I'm not at home so I can't test this on my Gentoo box. However this works using Cygwin at work. |
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