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# 1  
Old 05-14-2011
How to read the filenames with space character in it
Hi,
My Requirement is to read the filenames which possess space charatcer in it and pass the same file name to the other shell script as input parameter.
Please provide your valuable suggestion.
# 2  
Old 05-14-2011
One way is to enclose the filenames in quotes.
# 3  
Old 05-14-2011
Hi,
This is wat i am doing in the code
For file_name in *\ *
do
test.sh file_name
done


files in the folder
test 1.csv
test 2.csv
test3.csv

please provide a suggestion
# 4  
Old 05-14-2011
Please use code tags
Code:
for file_name in *\ *
do
     test.sh "$file_name"
done

# 5  
Old 05-14-2011
Hi,
I can read the file names properly.However while passing the file names as a parameter it is not taking the complete name.
I tried with above solution and its not working
# 6  
Old 05-14-2011
Frans also introduced double quotes around the variable reference. You need those to preserve the space in the file name.
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