Re: bash: esc space not recognised in cat script ?
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:47:39PM +0100, David selby wrote:
> Hello again, more thorny bash escaped space problems ...
> in $_tox is a file called "this is a test" ....
> Below is the portion of code that is causing problems ....
>
> for _scantox in $_tox/* ; do
> _scantox=${_scantox// /\\ }
Perhaps that should be:
_scantox="${_scantox// /\\ }"
?
(And, actually, I don't get why you're doing all this grotty
substitution stuff anyway. Just write $_scantox as "$_scantox" *every
time you use it*. bash handles spaces just fine as long as you quote
everything.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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