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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
# 2  
Old 10-14-2016
Hi,
Your problem is not spaces but the not eval of '*'...
Try:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_"*.txt
chmod 775 "$str"

But you must have just only one file either you must use a loop.
Regards.
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# 3  
Old 10-14-2016
@disedorgue: This does not work on my side. I will get the message, that no files have been found - but there are files in.

In the meantime I tried some things, and I found the solution:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
 str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_*.txt"
find "$(dirname "$str")" -name "$(basename "$str")" 2>/dev/null | while read file
do
  chmod 775 "$file"
done

This is working for me.

Nevertheless many thanks.
# 4  
Old 10-14-2016
If you have a huge list of files to process, the following should work just as well:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_*.txt"
find "${str%/*}" -name "${str##*/}" -exec chmod 775 {} +

If you don't have a huge list of file to process, the following would be simpler:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
str="/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_*.txt"
cd "${str%/*}"
chmod 775 ${str##*/}

but this latter form will print a diagnostic similar to:
Code:
chmod: t_*.txt: No such file or directory

if no matching files are present in that directory.

Or, if the list of files is relatively short, just:
Code:
chmod 775 "/home/hte4993/tmp/Porg Dir/t_"*.txt

Note that the asterisk must be been moved outside the double-quotes for this to work.
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