Re: help with quoting/expansion in bash

["Daniel B." <REMOVEdanielTHIS@fgm.com>]

Mike Bird wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:23, David Berg wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of
> > directories and runs a command.  I can't seem to get the quoting right
> > though.  Most of the directories have spaces and they are making
> > things difficult for me.  Here is what I have:
> >
> > for DIR in dir\ 1 dir\ 2 dir\ 3; do
> >        cd $DIR
> >        pwd
> >        cd ..
> > done
> >
> > The spaces in $DIR aren't escaped.
> >
> > Any help, including a pointer to the relevant part of TFM, is much appreciated.
>
>
> cd "$DIR"

Regarding the "FM" pointer request:


See "man bash" and the section titled "QUOTING."

Daniel