Hi All
I need to put a bunch of specific files in a directory (with loads of other files), into a tar archive. The best way I thought of doing this was putting the filenames into a file, reading them line by line in a for loop, and then adding them to a tar acrhive.

However the filenames have spaces:

/the/path/to/the/file/the file name with spaces

So when I do a for x in `cat /listoffiles` etc, it doesn't work because the shell sees the spaces as separators, and hence the bits of the name as separate files.

Anyone got a resolution to this? If I list the filename at the command line, enclosed by quotes, it's OK - but when I put $x in quotes in my for loop, it doesn't work.

Thanks for any help!