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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to deal files with space in names? Post 302539071 by 915086731 on Friday 15th of July 2011 05:32:39 AM
Old 07-15-2011
How to deal files with space in names?
I have a bash file as following:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
   deal_file(){
       printf $1
       printf "\t is a file"
       echo
   }
   
   main(){
       for file in `find "$1" `
      do
          deal_file $file
      done
  }
  
  main $1

then I run
Code:
./t.sh  .

,get the following results:
Code:
./     is a file
./b     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
./t.sh     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/b     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/c     is a file
./e     is a file
f     is a file
c/a     is a file
./a     is a file
b     is a file
./c     is a file
./a.txt     is a file
./a     is a file

However the file of the current directory is
Code:
[river@localhost f]$ find ./
./
./b
./e f
./t.sh
./e f c
./e f c/b
./e f c/c
./e f c/a
./a b
./c
./a.txt
./a

so the for loop spilt the file names if containing spaces, how can I fix the bug?
Thanks!
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

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       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
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       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
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