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Re: for command doesn't handle spaces in filename well!
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: for command doesn't handle spaces in filename well! |
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:47:37 -0500 |
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"Alex" <aolson1@lsu.edu> wrote:
> echo HELLO>"HELLO THERE"
> echo HI >"HI THERE"
> for f in H*; do echo $f;done
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> Resulting Output:
> HELLO THERE
> HI THERE
This is the correct behavior, and it has nothing to do with "for". It
has to do with unquoted variable expansion. If you want to preserve
the spaces, use "$f" instead of $f.
paul