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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy files listed in a text file - whitespace problem. Post 302249082 by 60doses on Monday 20th of October 2008 02:19:14 PM
Old 10-20-2008
Copy files listed in a text file - whitespace problem.
Hi,

Say I have this text file <copy.out> that contains a list of files/directories to be copied out to a different location.

Code:
$ more copy.out
dir1/file1
dir1/file2
dir1/file3
"dir1/white space"
dir1/file4

If I do the following:

Code:
$copy=`more copy.out`

$echo $copy
dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 "dir1/white space" dir1/file4

$cp -v $copy ./temp
dir1/file4 -> ./temp/file4
cp: space": No such file or directory
cp: "dir1/white: No such file or directory
dir1/file3 -> ./temp/file3
dir1/file2 -> ./temp/file2
dir1/file1 -> ./temp/file1

All of the files managed to be copied except for the file with a whitespace.

I have tried using for loop, but the same thing happened.

Code:
$ copy=`while read line; do echo "$line"; done < copy.out`

$ echo $copy
dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 "dir1/white space" dir1/file4

$ cp -v $copy ./temp
dir1/file4 -> ./temp/file4
cp: space": No such file or directory
cp: "dir1/white: No such file or directory
dir1/file3 -> ./temp/file3
dir1/file2 -> ./temp/file2
dir1/file1 -> ./temp/file1


I edited copy.out and replace "dir1/white space" with dir1/white\ space but it didn't work. Just by simply removing the double quotes failed to work either. I understand that by using echo, it will flatten any whitespace in $variable into a single space, so I've tried using double quotes $variable, but again, it failed to copy the file with a whitespace.

I don't like whitespace in files/dirs name, but some people seem to like it, so I'd like to know how to fix this problem.

Any advice offered is appreciated.

Thanks.
 

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ttk::labelframe(n)						 Tk Themed Widget						ttk::labelframe(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       ttk::labelframe - Container widget with optional label

SYNOPSIS

       ttk::labelframe pathName ?options?
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DESCRIPTION

       A  ttk::labelframe  widget is a container used to group other widgets together.	It has an optional label, which may be a plain text string
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STANDARD OPTIONS

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       -style

       See the ttk_widget manual entry for details on the standard options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       [-labelanchor labelAnchor] Specifies where to place the label.  Allowed values are (clockwise from the top upper left corner): nw,  n,  ne,
       en,  e,	es,  se,  s,sw,  ws,  w  and  wn.   The default value is theme-dependent.  [-text text] Specifies the text of the label.  [-under-
       line underline] If set, specifies the integer index (0-based) of a character to underline in the text string.  The underlined character	is
       used  for mnemonic activation.  Mnemonic activation for a ttk::labelframe sets the keyboard focus to the first child of the ttk::labelframe
       widget.	[-padding padding] Additional padding to include inside the border.  [-labelwidget labelWidget] The name of a widget  to  use  for
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WIDGET COMMAND

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SEE ALSO

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