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

[Jaime Soriano Pastor <kronoss@kronoss.org>]

I think this should work:

for i in `ls *`; do cat "$i"; done

diego escribió:
> Hello, I know this is nearly offtopic, but need some help on a simple
> one line script as didn't find a simple solution through Google.
>
> I'm trying to manage files that have one or more blanks in their names
> (I'm not responsible for them being in such *nice* format...). Let's say
> I have the files:
>
> 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
>
>
> but this will fail as it consider the blank as a separator for next
> filename.
>
> Thanx in advance.


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