Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:42:28 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1219918782.39167f@skytracker.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: space char shell script problem Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080824153456.025ac978@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20080823101941.GA42601@skytracker.ca> References: <20080823101941.GA42601@skytracker.ca>
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At 05:19 AM 8/23/2008, David Banning wrote:
>I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames.
>For instance, If I want to run the script;
>
>for x in `ls`
>do
> echo $x
>done
>
>then filenames that have a space in them ie: "john smith.jpg"
>are processed by my script as two names, "john" and "smith.jpg".
>
>What is the best way to deal with this type of space problem in the shell?
>
>I know that file names in quotes solves some problems but I can't tranfer
>that to my script.
Depending on what your script is doing, I would use an intermediate file
and awk.
Something like:
ls >/tmp/mytempfile
cat /tmp/mytempfile | awk '{ print $0 }'
if you are looking for something special add grep to the mix:
cat /tmp/mytempfile | awk '{ print $0 }'|grep -i [some name pattern]
rm /tmp/mytempfile
You can save the results to another temporary file for more processing, or
use awk more to create commandlines to execute in another script file such as:
cat /tmp/mytempfile | awk '{ print $0 }'|grep -i [some name pattern] | awk
'{printf"cp %s /backup/backupdir\n", $0)}' >/tmp/mycopyscript
chmod +x /tmp/mycopyscript
/tmp/mycopyscript
So depending on what your original script was doing, this method may work
for you.
-Derek
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