On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:00:31AM +0530, Foss User wrote: > $ ls [snip]
>
> Of course, this doesn't do what I need. The names are split wherever
> there are spaces.
if you want to work with spaces in shell scripts have a look at IFS (man
bash sh dash) the trick is
SAVEIFS="$IFS"
IFS="
"
<do some work>
IFS="$IFS"
note the IFS= across 2 lines is correct
[snip]
>
> What is the right way to do this?
>
>
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