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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting spaces in filenames, for do Post 302141081 by naviztirf on Wednesday 17th of October 2007 03:56:19 PM
Old 10-17-2007
Data spaces in filenames, for do
Hi All,


I see similar problems in past threads but so far no answers have worked for me. I am trying to write a script which parses a txt file that contains one filename per line, then finds those files on the local disk and copies them to a specified directory.

What I have:

#!/bin/bash
sed 's/.*/"&"/' filename.txt > /tmp/files
PAT=`more /tmp/files`
for fname in $PAT
do
find / -name "$fname" -type f -print >> /tmp/found
done
CP=`more /tmp/found`
for fname in $CP
do
cp -v "$fname" dest_dir
done
rm -f /tmp/found /tmp/files

Sed parses the file and adds quotes around the filenames (/tmp/files looks fine), but if I echo "$fname" instead of the find command I can see that it breaks up the filenames into separate lines. So if I have "filename1" and "filename 2" it returns:

"filename1"
"filename
2"

How can I get it to parse correctly? Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Navi
 

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mcxalter(1)							  USER COMMANDS 						       mcxalter(1)

  NAME
      mcxalter - various network transformations

  SYNOPSIS
      mcxalter [-imx <fname> (specify matrix input)] [-abc <fname> (specify label input)] [-tab <fname> (use tab file)] [-o <fname> (output)] [-tf
      spec (apply tf-spec to input matrix)]

  DESCRIPTION
      This utility supplies various transformations of networks.

  OPTIONS
      -abc <fname> (label input)
	The file name for input that is in label format.

      -imx <fname> (input matrix)
	The file name for input that is in mcl native matrix format.

      -tab <fname> (use tab file)
	This option causes the output to be printed with the labels found in the tab file.  With -abc this option will, additionally, construct  a
	graph  only on the labels found in the tab file.  If this option is used in conjunction with -imx the tab domain and the matrix domain are
	required to be identical.

      -tf <tf-spec> (transform input matrix values)
	Transform the input matrix values according to the syntax described in mcxio(5).

      -o fname (output file)
	Output file.

  AUTHOR
      Stijn van Dongen.

  SEE ALSO
      mcxio(5), mcx(1), mcxsubs(1), and mclfamily(7) for an overview of all the documentation and the utilities in the mcl family.

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