Re: No support for spaces in for loop

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Yan Pashkovsky wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../. -I.././include -I.././lib -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
> -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat 
> -Werror=format-security -Wall
> uname output: Linux mint-desktop 3.16.0-43-generic #58~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon 
> Jun 22 10:21:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>        "for file in *" doesn't correctly parse files containing spaces in 
> their filenames. For example file "an image of duck.jpg" will be interpreted 
> as 4 files "an" "image" "of" "duck.jpg"

  Yes, it does.

  Your problem is (probably, since you didn't include an example) that
  you omitted quotes around its expansion, e.g.:

printf '%s\n' $file

  That should be:

printf '%s\n' "$file"

> Repeat-By:

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