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Re: wrong filename returned by for in
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: wrong filename returned by for in |
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Tue, 12 May 2009 16:03:19 +0200 |
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Miche <ei5350@fh-ingolstadt.de> writes:
> Repeat-By:
> touch file\ \ with\ more\ than\ one\ spaces\ \ \ in\ sequence
> ls -1 file*
> for a in file* ; do echo $a ; done
Insufficient quoting. The expansion of $a undergoes word splitting, you
have to quote it to suppress that.
for a in file* ; do echo "$a" ; done
Andreas.
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