Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

[David selby]

Steve Lamb wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:05:41 +0100
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
   

 

for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
.....
done
   

   Why use ls?  Use the shell's globbing.  IE, poor man's ls:

bash-2.05b$ echo *
Desktop Mail-sh News RCS ao bin dcc docs ebay files foo bar lyrics mail mw4
no_jeopardy noelle nofpfs perl_work program quicken_backup.rar signatures slrn
tscreen www www.old bash-2.05b$ echo Desktop/*
Desktop/Autostart Desktop/Templates Desktop/Trash
bash-2.05b$ for x in Desktop/*; do
 

echo $x
done
   

Desktop/Autostart
Desktop/Templates
Desktop/Trash
   Of course the only problem above, at least with the echo line, is that
'foo bar' is really 'foo bar' and not 'foo' and 'bar'.  IE:
bash-2.05b$ for x in f*; do
 

echo $x
done
   

files
foo bar
 

I did not know globbing could be used in this way, many thanks for 
enlightening me.
Dave

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