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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with spaces in filename Post 302527750 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 5th of June 2011 05:51:03 AM
Old 06-05-2011
Hi always put double quotes around variable references. For example:
Code:
ddrescue "$from" "$to" "$log"

As an aside, there are some superfluous cats and echoes:
For example instead of
Code:
from=`echo $srcDir$currJob`

one could write:
Code:
from=$srcDir$currJob

or instead of:
Code:
cat $workDir/work | wc -l

Code:
wc -l < "$workDir/work"

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