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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting The "read" command misinterprets file names containing spaces Post 302588395 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 8th of January 2012 11:36:13 PM
Old 01-09-2012
Use bash to read the into an array:
Code:
read -p "Enter files: " -a vals
 
for((i=0; i < ${#vals[@]}; i++)) do
  echo "$i: ${vals[i]}"
done

On entry, escape spaces with backslash:
Code:
$ ./getfiles.sh
Enter files: Summer\ View.txt Winter\ View.txt
0: Summer View.txt
1: Winter View.txt

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 01-09-2012 at 01:10 AM..
 

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