shell programming : problem with directory name with whitespace

papiseckfr · 05-17-2006, 04:30 AM

Hi all,
i'm writing a simple shell script that change directory permission in a recursif way.
but i do have a probleme with directory name or file name that have whitespace.
this à sample using echo

Code:

./echo.sh  /home/partage/test/Users\ et\ Mail\ au\ test/

and for the script

Code:

 /home/partage/test/Users is a directory
et is a directory
Mail is a directory
and so and so

what can i do to indicate that th entire name of the directory is Users\ et\ Mail\ au\ test/ but not any subsection defined by whitespace

thanks in advance
Any help is welcome

nukkel · 05-17-2006, 05:41 AM

Put this line at the start of the script:

Code:

IFS=$'\n'

This will cause Bash's "Internal Field Separator" to be changed from the default (' ') to the newline character.

Esperant d'avoir aidé,
nukkel

papiseckfr · 05-17-2006, 09:06 AM

Thank you very much
it work know smoothly

c'est sure cela à beaucoup aidé

(je me fatiguais avec des programmes comme awk et sed

)