I have a correction to make. I don't think there's actually any way to escape the spaces or quote the folder names in list like this, so if you need to use folder names with spaces (something I avoid, btw) what you need to do is to remove the space charater from the $IFS environment variable, e.g. IFS=' '
Then run the mkdir `cat foldernames.txt` command. You can either reset $IFS to its default value (<space><tab><newline>) or close your session as further operations that depend on $IFS may yield unexpected results. On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 11:10:49 PM UTC-5, Dave wrote: > > If you have a space in a folder name, you’ll get two folders unless you > quote it. Not what I’d call “blowing up.” > > I only tried it with 330 names. I’m sure there’s a limit, but I don’t know > what it is. If you need more folders, make more lists. Or use a loop if it > makes you happy. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
