Hello, everybody... I'm suffering a huge problem with the "for" command because it wants to parse a variable ignoring escape characters.
For example, as you know, if I do something like this in bash: for i in sony apple "hewlett packard" do echo $i done It will echo the following: sony apple hewlett packard However, I have a program that generates a list of files (let's say like the previous one) that I want to use. This is what I get when some file names have spaces: for i in `my-program` do echo $i done It echoes the following: sony apple hewlett packard Did you notice how it broke "hewlett packard" in two separate strings? That is, it uses the spaces to parse the file names! I changed my program to add quotes, something like the following: "sony" "apple" "hewlett packard" Now the same snippet of code generates the following: "sony" "apple" "hewlett packard" That is, it ignores the quotes! I also tried using \ to escape the spaces, and I got something like the following: sony apple hewlett\ packard Any ideas? Thanks a bunch! Luis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/for-...-in-...-do-ignores-escape-characters-tp16753925p16753925.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.