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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting The "read" command misinterprets file names containing spaces Post 302588142 by ahamed101 on Saturday 7th of January 2012 01:41:53 AM
Old 01-07-2012
Try this... Enter the file names separated by , (comma)

Code:
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter Files: " line

OLD_IFS=IFS
IFS=,

for i in $line
do
        echo $i
done

IFS=$OLD_IFS

Code:
 
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    7 2012-01-07 12:09 a b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    8 2012-01-07 12:11 c d

root@bt > ./run
Enter Files : a b,c d
a b
c d

HTH
--ahamed
Last edited by ahamed101; 01-07-2012 at 02:50 AM..
 

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