Re: Maybe offtopic: Dealing with filenames with blanks in a script

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com>]

 --- diego <ddc_prueba@yahoo.es> wrote: 

> test 1
> test 2
> test 3
> 
> I want a script to do some processing on them, let's simplify with a
> simple cat:
> 
> for i in `ls *`; do cat $i; done

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '* *' -exec cat '{}' \;

If you need to encapsulate it do:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '* *' -print | while read foo; do cat
"$foo"; done

HTH,

-- Thomas Adam

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