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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix filenames and spaces Post 302105253 by x96riley3 on Wednesday 31st of January 2007 02:48:59 PM
Old 01-31-2007
Unix filenames and spaces
I have files on my unix boxes that users have created with spaces.

Example: /tmp/project plan

ls -l "/tmp/project plan" works fine.

$/tmp>ls -l "/tmp/project plan"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 31 12:32 /tmp/project plan

I created a file called test and put just the line /tmp/project plan in it.

$/tmp>cat test
/tmp/project plan
$/tmp>

$/tmp>for i in $(cat test) do ls -l "$i" done
/tmp/project: No such file or directory
plan: No such file or directory

I have tried to quote this string in and outside of the file everyway possible and I cannot get this for loop to see the spaced file. Any help would be great.

-x96
Last edited by x96riley3; 01-31-2007 at 05:15 PM..
 

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DESCRIPTION

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