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From: Cedric <cedric@belbone.be>
To: karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG
Cc: Robin Doer <robin@robind.de>, Newbie List <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: files and directories with spaces in bash script
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:49:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <460904BF.3080703@belbone.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703261203490.13397@localhost>

Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, at 5:52pm, Robin Doer wrote to 
> karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG:
>
>> Karthik Vishwanath schrieb:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> # set_idv3_tags.sh
>>
>> IFS=\n # Not tested!!!
>
> Tried all variants:
> IFS=\n
> IFS="\n"
> IFS='\n'
> IFS='
> '
>
>
> They don't work.
>
try this variant:
IFS=$'\n'

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 14:59 files and directories with spaces in bash script Karthik Vishwanath
2007-03-26 15:52 ` Robin Doer
2007-03-26 16:05   ` Karthik Vishwanath
2007-03-27 11:49     ` Cedric [this message]
2007-03-28 18:10 ` Flemming Greve Skovengaard

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