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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Proper way to use a path with spaces in the directory name Post 302963041 by MadeInGermany on Tuesday 22nd of December 2015 04:31:03 PM
Old 12-22-2015
Yes, or use quotes (have the spaces and special characters inside quotes, and have the wildcards like * outside).
Code:
for f in "/media/cmccabe/My Book Western Digital/10_29and30_2015/"*.bam ; do

 

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BAM(1)								   User Commands							    BAM(1)

NAME
bam - fast and flexible build system SYNOPSIS
bam [OPTION]... [VARIABLE=VALUE]... [TARGET]... DESCRIPTION
Builds applications using the bam build system. Execution: -a abort on error -c clean targets -d build targets that is dependent given targets --dry dry run, don't run any jobs -j sets the number of threads to use (default: 0, disabled) -s bam file to use (default: bam.lua) Lua: -l print local variables in backtrace -t print backtrace when an error occurs Output: -r build progress report format (default: s) b = progress bar c = use ansi colors s = build steps -v be verbose Other: -n don't use cache -h, --help prints this help Debug: --debug-nodes prints all the nodes with dependencies --debug-detail prints all the nodes with dependencies and details --debug-jobs prints all the jobs that exist --debug-dot prints all nodes as a graphviz dot file --debug-jobs-dot prints all jobs as a graphviz dot file --debug-trace-vm prints a line for every instruction the vm makes --debug-dump-int prints the internals scripts to stdout --debug-no-int don't load internal scripts bam by Magnus Auvinen (magnus.auvinen@gmail.com) bam May 2011 BAM(1)
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