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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cp files containing \ from a script Post 302238979 by Keith Daniels on Monday 22nd of September 2008 01:35:02 PM
Old 09-22-2008
cp files containing \ from a script

I am using a sh shell to try and create a script to remove backslashes (and other characters) from filenames.

At the end of the script I need to copy the original filename (with the backslash) to the new file name.

So far I have not been able to figure out how to do that from inside a for loop.


Example:

On the command line or inside the script, I can use this "exact" command to copy the file junk/junk.txt to junkjunk.txt

cp junk\\junk.txt junkjunk.txt

and it works perfectly. Smilie


But I need to use a variable or perhaps command substitution to represent the original filename inside the script, like this:

cp "$oldfilename" $newfilename

Even though I can create a variable, that echo "$oldfilename" shows contains junk\\junk.txt -- I can not get the cp command to work.

I have tried many variations of this using multiple backslashes with no success. Smilie

Is this even possible? Smilie

Thanks in advance.....
 

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