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



On July 13, 2003 06:05 am, David selby wrote:

> I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
>
> for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
> .....
> done

If I expect to find files with spaces I always use some variant of this:

ls /somewhere | while read file; do
    something "$file"
done

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Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net>                 http://www.wehave.net/
Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada                             Debian GNU/Linux



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