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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File names with spaces? Is it possible? Post 302096302 by vino on Wednesday 15th of November 2006 12:30:50 AM
Old 11-15-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric_2005
for i in `cat ~\temp\employee.txt`
do
echo $i
done
Try this
Code:
while IFS="\n" read line
do
  echo "$line"
done < ~/temp/employee.txt

 

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RAR_ENTRY_GET(3)							 1							  RAR_ENTRY_GET(3)

RarArchive::getEntry - Get entry object from the RAR archive

       Object oriented style (method):

SYNOPSIS
public RarEntry RarArchive::getEntry (string $entryname) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style: RarEntry rar_entry_get (RarArchive $rarfile, string $entryname) Get entry object (file or directory) from the RAR archive. Note You can also get entry objects using RarArchive::getEntries. Note that a RAR archive can have multiple entries with the same name; this method will retrieve only the first. PARAMETERS
o $rarfile - A RarArchive object, opened with rar_open(3). o $entryname - Path to the entry within the RAR archive. Note The path must be the same returned by RarEntry::getName. RETURN VALUES
Returns the matching RarEntry object or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Object oriented style <?php $rar_arch = RarArchive::open('solid.rar'); if ($rar_arch === FALSE) die("Could not open RAR archive."); $rar_entry = $rar_arch->getEntry('tese.txt'); if ($rar_entry === FALSE) die("Could get such entry"); echo get_class($rar_entry)." "; echo $rar_entry; $rar_arch->close(); ?> The above example will output something similar to: RarEntry RarEntry for file "tese.txt" (23b93a7a) Example #2 Procedural style <?php $rar_arch = rar_open('solid.rar'); if ($rar_arch === FALSE) die("Could not open RAR archive."); $rar_entry = rar_entry_get($rar_arch, 'tese.txt'); if ($rar_entry === FALSE) die("Could get such entry"); echo get_class($rar_entry)." "; echo $rar_entry; rar_close($rar_arch); ?> SEE ALSO
RarArchive::getEntries, rar:// wrapper. PHP Documentation Group RAR_ENTRY_GET(3)
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