Handling whitespace in For loop

rvoigt · 04-06-2005, 04:33 AM

Hi there

I'm trying to write a script that will list all files and directoryfrom a directory.

LIST=$(ls $DIRNAME)

for file in $DIRNAME; do

echo $file

done.

Unfortunately the for loop does not handle whitespaces in files.

Is there a solution to it?

Is there a system variable that define the field separator of a for loop?

Thank you.

sandipan · 04-06-2005, 06:57 AM

wat is it that u want to do ? just print them? then u can change IFS,like

IFS='\n' before that code will work.

else try

for file in "`ls $DIRNAME`";do
echo $file
done

note that though this will print files you can't perform any action on files indivdually . thats because the whole thing is put infile in 1 go....