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Old 04-09-2010
copy files as space exist in file name..
Hi,
i am having a directory in which files are having space in the name .
Code:
$ls -1 
aa b.txt
my file.pdf
lost file.csv
foo_file.txt

i want to copy those file to some where with date +%F as extension . But it failed for the file having space.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
ls -1 >tt
for var in `cat tt`
do
b=$var
cp "$b" "$b"-`date +%F`
done

Even i failed to get solution using assigning " to variable and appending that variable while using cp .

Thanks & Regard's
posix
# 2  
Old 04-09-2010
Code:
#!/bin/sh

for var in *
do
   b=$var
   cp "$b" "$b"-`date +%F`
done

# 3  
Old 04-09-2010
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
ls -1 >tt
for var in `cat tt`
do
b=$var
cp "$b" "$b"-`date +%F`
done

We need to replace the "for" loop with a "while" loop to preserve spaces.
Note that the "ls -1" will not work sensibly if it picks up a directory name so we need to check whether it is a file not a directory.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
ls -1 | while read filename
do
        if [ -f "${filename} ]
        then
                 cp "${filename}" "${filename}-`date +%F`"
        fi
done

 
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