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05-21-2007
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Space problem in files
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 $a in "" doesn't help. Thanks 
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List contains name of files:
eg. A.txt The hell.txt etc. I want to perform some operations on all. Now how do i go about with "The Hell.txt"
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Code:
while read file
do
echo "$file"
done < list.txt
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Okay,
And if i have to take it directly from command substitution: like: for a in `find . -type f`; do ...... Then ...
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find . -type f | while read file
do
....
done
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Great,
I generally do my work with for, not pretty convercent with while.  Any way of doing this for loop. Thanks
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