12-03-2012
File paths with spaces in a variable
Hi all my very first post so go easy on me!!
I am trying to build a very simple script to list a file path with spaces in. But I can't get around this problem. My script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
X="/Library/Users/Application\ Support/"
LS="ls"
AL="-al"
$LS $AL $X
The response I get is this
ls: /Library/Application\: No such file or directory
ls: Support/: No such file or directory
I know this is a problem with the space in the file path but I thought the "" would pass to the commandline with no issues but I am wrong.
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NAME
pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving
SYNOPSIS
pct-scanner-script [--help]
DESCRIPTION
pct-scanner-script is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu
PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined,
making it easy to switch between configurations.
Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples.
Features:
- auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files
- auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails
- cascading configuration system, for easy customizing
- easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options
- archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners
- built for productivity and daily use
- uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools
- multilanguage commandline output
OPTIONS
-h, --help, -?
Show summary of options, help, and examples.
DEBUGGING
This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this
script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools.
SEE ALSO
scanadf(1),
AUTHOR
pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:
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March 31, 2009 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)