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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to read double consecutive space in filename for bash shell Post 302127359 by james_falco on Tuesday 17th of July 2007 02:13:36 PM
Old 07-17-2007
how to read double consecutive space in filename for bash shell
Hello,

Im using cygwin app which we use the bash shell for scripting.
Im trying to read a filename with consecutive spaces on the filename
ex: filename<space><space>1.txt

ls -lrt filename<space><space>1.txt is working but when I pull that from a file and place it into variable. it reads only as single space: filename<space>1.txt

ex:
cat samp.txt
output:
1:filename<space><space>2.txt
2:filename<space><space>1.txt
3:filename<space><space>3.txt

var1=`cat samp.txt |sed -n -2p |awk '{print $NF}'`
echo $var1
output:
filename<space>1.txt

Please advice how to read double consecutive spaces. Is there any escape characters?
 

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