11-04-2009
Treating Strings with spaces
I have a file list.txt which has a list of file names with spaces between the file names like
/emptydir/file 1
how do i browse through the list.txt displaying the filenames. Almost all the file names in list.txt have space between them.This file list.txt is formed by using the find statement to find all the files in a given directory. Now i need to traverse through the list.txt and print each of the filenames in it. If someone has a suggestion to display the filenames without redirecting the output to the file list.txt, please let me know. That is much appreciated. Thanks in advance folks.
Last edited by kinny; 11-04-2009 at 10:56 AM..
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