Re: Maybe offtopic: Dealing with filenames with blanks in a script
Cameron Hutchison <camh+dl@xdna.net> said on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:51:29 +1000:
> Once upon a time diego said...
> >
> > I'm trying to manage files that have one or more blanks in their names
> > [...]
> > 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
>
> Never use `ls *`, when a simple * will do. eg:
> for i in * ; do cat $1; done
Also, you probably want to try a cat "$i" there - that will be your
next bug.
> Using `ls *` is causing the first of your problems, namely defining
> filename boundaries - you are losing them with `ls *`.
Could someone enlighten me as to why people keep on putting
superfluous `ls *` in their scripts? Pretty please?
That and the "useless uses of cat" awards.
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