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

[David selby]

Jeff Schaller wrote:

David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

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

 

However some of the file names are in the form of
342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update
ie they have escaped spaces in the name.
     

 

Without resorting to complex string manipulation & cutting, is there a
neat way to do this ?
     

I missed the start of this thread (just joined the list), but does
this work for you?
ls -1 *pattern* | while read file; do echo $file; done

-jeff
 

Many thanks for your input, finally used a globbing solution by steve,

for var in ..../*; do
....
done
Though I will try your suggestion, I had not thought of this either !

Dave



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