On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:45:26PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep running into this particular gap in my scripting, and hope someone can
> clear it up for me.
>
> FILES=$( ls SOMEWHERE ) #or find or grep, etc
>
> for FILE in $FILES; do SOMETHING; done
>
> I often find that if there are spaces in the names of anything in $FILES, the
> execution of SOMETHING occurs separately for each word in the name, producing
> unexpected results.
>
> Quoting doesn't seem to help. Are there ways to deal with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
Hi John,
here are two examples. #1 should work, while #2 should not.
ls | while read FILE; do
test -e "$FILE" || echo opps $FILE;
done
ls | while read FILE; do
test -e $FILE || echo opps $FILE;
done
cheers,
Kev
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