Hi,

I have a file containing a list of entries.

Want to do ls on them.

for a in `cat <list.txt>`; do ls $a; done;

Now some entries contain spaces.
How do i incorporate space in $a.

Quoting $a in "" doesn't help.

Thanks

Are you trying to check whether files in list.txt exists? Can you show list.txt?

List contains name of files:

eg.

A.txt
The hell.txt
etc.

I want to perform some operations on all.

Now how do i go about with "The Hell.txt"

Since some of the filename contain spaces use quotes to do your operation.

Okay,

And if i have to take it directly from command substitution:

like:

for a in `find . -type f`; do ......

Then ...

Great,

I generally do my work with for, not pretty convercent with while.

Any way of doing this for loop.

Thanks