Re: Wildcard expansion doesn't handle filenames with spaces

[Paul Jarc]

a.t.hofkamp@tue.nl writes:
>         3) Perform wildcard expansion:
>            for i in *.file
>            do ./argc $i
>            done

Wildcard expansion isn't the issue here.  Word splitting is performed
on parameter values unless you double-quote the parameter.  (See
EXPANSION in the man page.)  So if you want $i to be a single
argument, and if it might contain spaces, use "$i".


paul