From: Karthik Vishwanath <karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG>
To: Robin Doer <robin@robind.de>
Cc: karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG, Newbie List <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: files and directories with spaces in bash script
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:05:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703261203490.13397@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4607EC2B.3010003@robind.de>
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.
>>
>> for directory in "$@"; do
>> if [[ -d "$directory" ]]; then
>> for f in `find $directory -iname '*mp3' `; do
>> echo "found mp3 file: $f"
>> done
>> fi
>> done
>
>
> Bash uses the IFS variable for word splitting. (man bash)
>
> HTH,
> Robin
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 16:05 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 [this message]
2007-03-27 11:49 ` Cedric
2007-03-28 18:10 ` Flemming Greve Skovengaard
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