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



On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:06:23AM +0200, diego wrote:
> 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 $i; done
> 
> 
> but this will fail as it consider the blank as a separator for next
> filename.
> 
Hi Diego,
this is one of the most asked questions. The key is to use quotes around
the variable.
... cat "$i"; ...
-Kev

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