Re: Bash scripts and multi-word filenames

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/05/2006 12:45 AM, John O'Hagan wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I keep running into this particular gap in my scripting, and hope someone can 
> clear it up for me.  
>
> FILES=$( ls SOMEWHERE )  #or find or grep, etc
>
> for FILE in $FILES; do SOMETHING; done
>
> I often find that if there are spaces in the names of anything in $FILES, the 
> execution of SOMETHING occurs separately for each word in the name, producing 
> unexpected results.
>
> Quoting doesn't seem to help. Are there ways to deal with this?

Yes,

while read FILE
do
   echo play with $FILE
done <<< "$(ls)"

> Thanks,
>
> John

You're welcome.