Re: Spaces in File name Handling

[Paul Jarc]

alupu@att.net wrote:
> #3. However, the "real" case, doesn't work ...
> TMP=`ls -AQ`
> for i in "$TMP" ; do ls -ld "$i" ; done

Since "$TMP" is quoted, it won't be split, and the loop will run only
once, with i set to the full value of $TMP.  Don't quote $TMP, and
make sure it gets split only at newlines, not other whitespace:
TMP=`ls -A`
IFS=$'\n'
for i in $TMP ; do ls -ld "$i" ; done

Alternatively:
for i in .[!.] .??* *; do ls -ld "$i"; done


paul