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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Chmod with spaces and wildcards Post 302983644 by API on Friday 14th of October 2016 09:04:49 AM
Old 10-14-2016
Chmod with spaces and wildcards
Hello all,

I have a Problem within my Shell-script to do a 'chmod' at some files - where the Directory has spaces. Because I want to do this for many files I use the '*' Wildcard.

Here is my script:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_*.txt"
 neu=$(echo "$str" | sed 's/ /\\ /g')
 chmod 775 $neu

Quote:
chmod: /home/hte4993/tmp/Porg\: No such file or directory
chmod: Dir/t_*.txt: No such file or Directory
And the script with qoutes around the variable:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_*.txt"
 neu=$(echo "$str" | sed 's/ /\\ /g')
 chmod 775 "$neu"

Quote:
chmod: /home/hte4993/tmp/Porg\ Dir/t_*.txt: No such file or directory
Do you have a solution for this?

CU
 

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