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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Preserving whitespace in a for loop Post 302301097 by s_becker on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 10:34:51 PM
Old 03-25-2009
Preserving whitespace in a for loop
I obviously haven't learned my lesson with shell and whitespace.

Code:
find /path/to/some/where/ -name  "*.pdf"  | awk '{print $5}'| uniq -d

results:

some Corporation
other Corporate junk
firmx

Works fine from cmdline but the whitespace turns into another FS in a for loop.

Code:
for i in ` find /path/to/some/where -name  "*.pdf"  | awk -F/ '{print $5}'| uniq -d`;do echo $i; done

returns:

some 
Corporation
other 
Corporate 
junk
firmx

I tried using OFS and ORS to no avail.
 

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UNIQ(1) 								FSF								   UNIQ(1)

NAME

       uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

SYNOPSIS

       uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

DESCRIPTION

       Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -c, --count
	      prefix lines by the number of occurrences

       -d, --repeated
	      only print duplicate lines

       -D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method] print all duplicate lines
	      delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate} Delimiting is done with blank lines.

       -f, --skip-fields=N
	      avoid comparing the first N fields

       -i, --ignore-case
	      ignore differences in case when comparing

       -s, --skip-chars=N
	      avoid comparing the first N characters

       -u, --unique
	      only print unique lines

       -w, --check-chars=N
	      compare no more than N characters in lines

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters.	Fields are skipped before chars.

AUTHOR

       Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
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SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for uniq is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and uniq programs are properly installed at your site,  the
       command

	      info uniq

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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