Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:10:48 -0600 From: "Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: shell script Message-ID: <OE62iJCAgn5yIVqVWrx0000bf2c@hotmail.com>
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Hello,
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?
Thanks,
brian
input.txt
--------
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'.mp3
Dave Matthews.mp3
size.sh
-------
#!/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;
current result
-------------
Tom
Petty
-
Free
Fallin'.mp3
Dave
Matthews.mp3
desired result
--------------
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'.mp3
Dave Matthews.mp3
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