On July 13, 2003 06:05 am, David selby wrote:
> I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
>
> for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
> .
> done
If I expect to find files with spaces I always use some variant of this:
ls /somewhere | while read file; do
something "$file"
don
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 c
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 *
De
> 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 manipulati
On Sun, July 13 at 11:05 AM EDT
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
>
>works just file with _scantox holding the file name, However some of the
>file names are in the form of
>342345
Hello,
I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
for _scantox in $(ls $_tox); do
.
done
works just file with _scantox holding the file name, 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. I
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