Bash Scripting Question
 

Hi!
I'm working on a simple script that passes a filename stored in a file (each filename is stored on a seperate line), as an argument to a program.

It uses a for loop.

I have a few files that contain spaces, like;

aaaaa\ bbb.jpg

The problem is, that 'for' takes that as two names, thus the program won't work on files with spaces.

Now my question;
How can I make it see a filename with spaces in as one name?

Thanks!
RefriedBean

If you have quotes around the filenames with spaces in the .list file then you can easily use xargs to get it to run the command with each filename seperately. Something like:

cat ~/.list | xargs -n 1 programname

You can get ls to put quotes around each filename so you could do something like this.

ls --quoting-style=c *.jpg | xargs -n1 programname

That would run the program for each .jpg file in the current directory even if it had spaces in the name.

this should do the job

no2nt your example would work for one file with spaces in it. But it won't call the program one time for each filename in the list file. It just sends the complete list of files as one argument and only calls the program once.

oh, i'm extremely sorry. I left something out!

thanks for showing me my error of ommision :-)

That IFS parameter is rather handy. I gotta remember that one.

Thank you for all for your replies!

RefriedBean