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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting The "read" command misinterprets file names containing spaces Post 302588163 by jlliagre on Saturday 7th of January 2012 06:12:24 AM
Old 01-07-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessNux
As I wrote in the original post, file names may contain any symbols including commas.
I'm afraid you didn't wrote that. What would help is for you to tell what character is not going to be present in the file names. Otherwise, there would be no reliable way to parse the user's input.
Assuming your file names do not contain a new line, which is a reasonable expectation, this should work:
Code:
IFS="\n"
typeset -a a
read -p "Enter first file name (an empty string will end input): "
while true
do
  as=${#a[@]}
  [[ -z "$REPLY" ]] && break
  a[$as]="$REPLY"
  read -p "Enter next file name : "
done
for i in "${a[@]}" ; do
  echo "$i"
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

line

line(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   line(1)

NAME

       line - Reads one line from standard input

SYNOPSIS

       line

STANDARDS

       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       line:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS

       None

DESCRIPTION

       The  line  command  copies one line, up to and including a newline, from standard input and writes it to standard output.  Use this command
       within a shell command file to read from your terminal.	The line command always writes at least a newline character.

NOTES

       The line utility has no internationalization features and is marked LEGACY in XCU Issue 5. Use the read utility instead.

EXIT STATUS

       Success.  End-of-File.

EXAMPLES

       To read a line from the keyboard and append it to a file, enter: echo 'Enter comments for the log:' echo ': c' line >>log

       This shell procedure displays the message: Enter comments for the log:

       It then reads a line of text from the keyboard and adds it to the end of the file log.  The echo  ':  c'  command  displays  a	:  (colon)
       prompt.	See the echo command for information about the c escape sequence.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  echo(1), ksh(1), read(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p)

       Functions:  read(2)

       Standards:  standards(5)

																	   line(1)
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