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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Process files in loop which have spaces in name Post 302971066 by Wernfried on Friday 15th of April 2016 09:55:16 AM
Old 04-15-2016
Process files in loop which have spaces in name
I have a folder with files and I have to process them in a loop. However the filenames have space characters, so the list get split.

Code:
$ touch "File Number_1"
$ touch "File Number_2"
$ ls "/tmp/File Number"_*
/tmp/File Number_1  /tmp/File Number_2

I tried following (sorry for using the `tcsh`):
Code:
$ foreach file ( `ls "/tmp/File Number"_*` )
foreach? echo ">"$file"<"
foreach? end
>/tmp/File<
>Number_1<
>/tmp/File<
>Number_2<


$ set FILES = ( `ls "/tmp/File Number"_*` )
$ while ( $#FILES )
while? echo ">"$FILES[1]"<"
while? shift FILES
while? end
>/tmp/File<
>Number_1<
>/tmp/File<
>Number_2<

set FILES = "/tmp/File Number"_*
... same as above

Can you help me to solve my problem?

btw, I don't mind to get a solution which renames the files. The files will be renamed anyway.

Best Regards
Wernfried
Last edited by Wernfried; 04-15-2016 at 11:34 AM..
 

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