Re: Forcing For Loop To Accept Spaces

[Ian Macdonald]

On Thu 18 Apr 2002 at 12:11:47 -0600, you wrote:

> Paul Jarc stated the following:
> > 
> > SoloCDM <deedsmis@aculink.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > How do I force a for loop to except files with spaces in their
> > > names?
> > 
> > Quote the spaces.  (BTW, you mean "accept", not "except". "except" is
> > nearly the opposite of what you mean.)
> 
> It didn't work.  Even with the quotes around the whole name it didn't
> work.

What are you using?

This works for me:

[ianmacd@caliban ~]$ for i in 'foo bar'; do echo $i; done
foo bar

Ian
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