Oh hang on.. your right..sorry. then this
ls -1 | while read A; do echo ">$A<"; done >SMA.bak< >smbpw-mppe-stripdom-requiremppe.diff.tar.gz< >SMC< >t2linuxserver.zip< >test file< <-------THERE'S MY SPACE FILE >universe< thanks, George Vieira Network Engineer Citadel Computer Systems P/L -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hyne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:07 PM To: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Filenames with spaces - and using a shell script. Unfortunately this then treats the entire 'ls' as a single element and prints that when I print FILE. ie the whole of the ls output is printed between the >xxx< quotes. Matt At Friday, 26/10/2001 03:24 PM (+1000), George Vieira wrote: >try this > >for FILE in "`ls -1`"; do echo ">$FILE<"; done > >confirm it displays what you want and then change the ECHO command to do >what you want.. > >BUT remember to use quotes "" around the $FILE.... > > > >thanks, >George Vieira >Network Engineer >Citadel Computer Systems P/L > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Matt Hyne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:16 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SLUG] Filenames with spaces - and using a shell script. > > > >I am trying the write a little script to convert some MS Word files to HTML, >however some of the word files contain spaces in their name. > >Hense, when I use the couple of lines below, it treats the space as a >delimiting character and chops up the filename. > >Anyone know how to get around this without renaming all the files (some >350). > >Ie > >for FILE in `ls`; do > echo "Converting $FILE..." >done > >Converting xxx... >Converting yyy... >Converting zzz.doc... > >[root@panda MSDS]# ls -l xxx\ yyy\ zzz.doc >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50 Oct 26 14:40 xxx yyy zzz.doc >[root@panda MSDS]# > >Matt > > >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
