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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looping through filenames with spaces Post 302262711 by KenJackson on Friday 28th of November 2008 12:54:22 PM
Old 11-28-2008
Looping through filenames with spaces
I need to loop through the files in a directory and process the files. But some of the filenames contain spaces.

Here is a little test script I've been using to experiment. (I'm not really going to call 'echo', I'm doing some other processing.) Everything I try fails. How can I do this??
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# spacetest
DIR="/tmp/spacetest$$"
rm -rf $DIR
mkdir -p $DIR || exit 1
touch $DIR/{"a b","c d"}

# This works, when I itemize filenames a priori
set "a b" "c d"
for x in "$@"; do
    echo $x
done

echo Test 1:    # Fails
for x in $(find $DIR -mindepth 1 -printf '"%f" '); do
    echo $x
done

echo Test 2:    # Fails
set $(find $DIR -mindepth 1 -printf '%f ')
for x in "$@"; do
    echo $x
done

echo Test 3:    # Fails
set $(find $DIR -mindepth 1 -printf '"%f" ')
for x in "$@"; do
    echo $x
done

echo Test 4:    # Fails
_list="$(find $DIR -mindepth 1 -printf '"%f" ')"
set $_list
for x in "$@"; do
    echo $x
done

rm -rf $DIR

 

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ftp_nlist

FTP_NLIST(3)								 1							      FTP_NLIST(3)

ftp_nlist - Returns a list of files in the given directory

SYNOPSIS

       array ftp_nlist (resource  $ftp_stream, string  $directory)

DESCRIPTION

PARAMETERS

	      o $ftp_stream
		- The link identifier of the FTP connection.

	      o $directory
		-  The directory to be listed. This parameter can also include arguments, eg. ftp_nlist($conn_id, "-la /your/dir"); Note that this
		parameter isn't escaped so there may be some issues with filenames containing spaces and other characters.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns an array of filenames from the specified directory on success or FALSE on error.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      ftp_nlist(3) example

	      <?php

	      // set up basic connection
	      $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

	      // login with username and password
	      $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

	      // get contents of the current directory
	      $contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");

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