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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to Abort if file name has space. Post 302789221 by pinnacle on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 10:33:45 AM
Old 04-03-2013
Shell Script to Abort if file name has space.
Hi,
In my shell script I use the following code to copy files from one directory to other.

Code:
 
    for file in `ls`; do
 
    #----------------- Copy Files From INDIR to OUTDIR  -------------#
        echoen "Copying File ${INDIR}/$file to ${OUTDIR}/${file}"
        cp ${INDIR}/$file  ${OUTDIR}/$file
        if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
            echoen "Copy Successful ${INDIR}/$file to ${OUTDIR}/$file!!"
        else
            echoen "Could not copy file ${INDIR}/$file to ${OUTDIR}/$file"
            exit -15
        fi
 
    done


I would like to add logic that before copy happens I would like to check if the file name has any spaces in it. If it has space then I would like to abort the process.
The reason why I want to abort is in next part of shell script I remove/delete files based on looping on output of ls command and having a space might create unneccessary problems.

Help is appreciated to modify the above code to abort if space is found in the file name.
 

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