Neil Parker wrote:
Patrick Wade wrote,
My problem ; i have a file containing a list of filenames, which may
contain spaces or dots in them:
---
foo
bar baz
quux.random
---
I would like to execute a series of scp commands on them:
---
scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:foo here/
scp "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:bar baz" here/
scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:quux.random here/
---
My various efforts at IFS definition have not done what i wanted.
Can anyone point me towards the right way to do this?
Forget IFS--xargs can do you work for you, and in just one command line:
xargs -i scp '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:{}' here/ <list-of-files
(where "list-of-files" is your file containing the list of filenames).
- Neil Parker
Neil Parker
I was able to get satisfactory results from this one by added \" in four
places (see below) - granted my testing was all local. Does it behave
differently when copying from remote?
Regards
Fred James
#! /bin/sh
# fubar3.sh
#
fileName="fubar"
xargs -i scp \"'{}'\" \"'{}'\".new < $fileName
exit
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