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Whitespace in filenames in for loop in bash script
I'm trying to search all .odt files in a directory for a string in the text of the file. I've found a bash script that works, except that it can't handle whitespace in the filenames. Code:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
exit 1
fi
for file in $(ls *.odt); do
unzip -ca "$file" content.xml | zgrep -ql "$1"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "$file"
fi
done
(Coutesy of [ubuntu] [SOLVED] Search multiple .odt files - Ubuntu Forums) I've gone through a number of postings on this forum, but simple tricks like quotes, of any kind, don't work. Any quotes I put around Code:
(ls *.odt) or just Code:
*.odt stop it working completely I found this code Code:
find /path/to/some/where/ -name "*.pdf" | awk '{print $5}'| uniq -d |while read name ; do
in a thread here Preserving whitespace in a for loop which solves the problem in that context, but I don't see how to integrate it into the script. |
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