Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:19:42 -0400 From: David Banning <david+dated+1219918782.39167f@skytracker.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: space char shell script problem Message-ID: <20080823101941.GA42601@skytracker.ca>
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I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: "john smith.jpg" are processed by my script as two names, "john" and "smith.jpg". What is the best way to deal with this type of space problem in the shell? I know that file names in quotes solves some problems but I can't tranfer that to my script.
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