Re: files and directories with spaces in bash script

[Karthik Vishwanath]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, at 5:52pm, Robin Doer wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Karthik Vishwanath schrieb:

#!/bin/bash
# set_idv3_tags.sh

IFS=\n # Not tested!!!

Tried all variants:
IFS=\n
IFS="\n"
IFS='\n'
IFS='
'


They don't work.

for directory in "$@"; do
  if [[ -d "$directory" ]]; then
    for f in `find $directory -iname '*mp3' `; do
      echo "found mp3 file: $f"
    done
  fi
done

Bash uses the IFS variable for word splitting. (man bash)

HTH,
Robin

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