I need a script to find directories in a tree and cd to
them. Some of the directory names have blanks in them, eg
"Flash Player". So if a directory has the subdirectories
./Flash Player
./foo
then a command like
IFS=./; for directory in `find ./ -type d | xargs`
will give
directory="Flash Player "
then
directory="foo "
in bash to cd to "Flash Player " I have to cd to "Flash\
Player ". I can substitute the first blank with
directory=${directory//\ /\\}
but there is a 2nd blank in the directory name and I get
directory="Flash\ Player\ "
In this construct the $ symbol does not work as an EOL
symbol, so I can't selectively remove the last blank.
I tried substituting the blanks between [:alphanum:]
[:alphanum:] but there doesn't seem to be any way to replace
the char you matched (here the 'h' and the 'P') as you can
in perl.
Any ideas on changing "Flash Player " to "Flash\ Player"
(or "Flash\ Player ") in a bash script?
Thanks Joe
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