Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

[Jeff Schaller <schaller@freeshell.org>]

> David selby <debian@pusspaws.net> wrote:
> >I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.

> >However some of the file names are in the form of
> >342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update
> >
> >ie they have escaped spaces in the name.

> >Without resorting to complex string manipulation & cutting, is there a
> >neat way to do this ?

I missed the start of this thread (just joined the list), but does
this work for you?

ls -1 *pattern* | while read file; do echo $file; done

-jeff
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