Shell Programming and Scripting

hi!

i have a lot of files (800+) (in windows format - i.e. they have spaces in the filename) that i need to copy to disk... if i write a for loop to ls the files and copy it fails as the file it trys to read is just the 1st part of the file (which of course doesnt exist)...

i dont want to add a '\ ' and do each one individually - can anyone suggest a quick workaround??

thanks a lot !!
Richard

Use double quotes around the file name.

Something like this...

ls -l "a b c"

Thanks Vino... i was hoping for something i could script, rather than copy them individually...
cheers anyway

Many ways of doing this, here's one

Code:

cd /where/my/files/are
ls | while IFS=; read file; do
   cp ${file} /some/destination
done

That'll keep the spaces in the filenames. If you don't want the spaces, use tr or sed to change the spaces to underscores.

Code:

cd /where/my/files/are
ls | while read file; do
   cp "${file}" /some/destination/`echo "${file}" | tr ' ' '_'`
done

Edit: Added alternate method to rename files.

Cheers
ZB

top man !!