A long time ago (Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:06:34PM +1000), in a galaxy far far away,
Matthew Dalton wrote :
> Matt Hyne wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well yeah, because the for statement is only seeing one argument - "`ls
> -l`". Remove the quotes around this for it to work.
That would bring him back to the initial problem.... spaces in the filename.
The way I do it is :
find "$1" -name '*' -printf '%p\n'|
(
while read i; do
echo "$i"
done
)
However, that would breaak for files which has newlines in their names :> I recall
reading somewhere that the only characters not allowed in a UNIX filenames are `.' and
`/'.
>
>
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > At Friday, 26/10/2001 03:24 PM (+1000), George Vieira wrote:
> > >try this
> > >
> > >for FILE in "`ls -1`"; do echo ">$FILE<"; done
>
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