On 2002-11-21 14:10, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a simple shell script problem. if i have a file name with a
> space in the name the following script doesn't get the entire name.
> The for loop conditional statement below stops for spaces or new
> lines... i would like it to stop for just new lines. is there a way
> to do that with shell script. how can i change the condition in the
> for loop to do that?
> #!/bin/sh -x
> # sh size.sh /smb/dc input.txt
>
> PATH=$1
> INPUT=$2
>
> for i in `/bin/cat ${INPUT}`; do
> echo "in loop"
> FILE=`echo $i | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
> SIZE=`echo $i | /usr/bin/awk -F: '{ print $2 }'`
>
> echo "${FILE}
> done
> exit 0;
You don't really need to write the loop in shell code for printing
everything up to the first ':' (which is what your shell script
apparently tries to do by passing each line to awk(1). Just pass the
input.txt file to awk. The following will work correctly:
awk -F: '{print $1}' < input.txt
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