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Poochieİ
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Posts: 10
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject:
Re: Spaces in directory names & script
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Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Thanks to both. It actually works! My problem was with the TextEditor I
was using (TextWrangler under OSX) that printed some weird stylish
quotes instead of the default straight ones.
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Rakesh Sharma
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Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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Re: Spaces in directory names & script
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Poochieİ wrote:
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I got this codetaken from a script of mine:
for dirname in *;
do
if [ -d $dirname ]
then
echo entrando in: $dirname
cd $dirname
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what must I do to make it handle directories with whitespaces in
their
name?
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## Notes:i) prefix the wildcards with a ./ so that any funny
## characters(e.g., - ! etc.) are shielded from the commands
## where they are going to be used
## instead of 'echo' use either 'printf' or the << operator
## the wildcards are shown here to look for ``hidden'' directories
## also.
## use quotes around your variables to stop word splitting, IOW
## preserve spaces/TABS/newlines in your dir. names
## used 'd_name' as a variable name since 'dirname' is a command
## (although it's not a pbm. as such)
for d_name in ./* ./.[!.]* ./..?*;do
[ -d "${d_name}" ] || continue
cat - << [EOF]
entrando in: '${d_name}'
[EOF]
cd "${d_name}"
done
Or this:
for d_name in ./* ./.*;do
[ -d "${d_name}" ] || continue
case ${d_name} in './.'|'./..') continue;; esac
printf 'entrando in: "%s"\n' "${d_name}"
cd "${d_name}"
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Chris F.A. Johnson
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 2268
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:44 am Post subject:
Re: Spaces in directory names & script
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 at 06:20 GMT, Poochieİ wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
I got this codetaken from a script of mine:
for dirname in *;
do
if [ -d $dirname ]
then
echo entrando in: $dirname
cd $dirname
[CUT]
what must I do to make it handle directories with whitespaces in their
name?
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Quote the dirnames:
for dirname in *;
do
if [ -d "$dirname" ]
then
echo entrando in: "$dirname"
cd "$dirname"
I'd rewrite the last two line to test for success of cd:
cd "$dirname" && echo entrando in: "$dirname" || : Error action here
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Chris F.A. Johnson http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell
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My code (if any) in this post is copyright 2005, Chris F.A. Johnson
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Poochieİ
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Posts: 10
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:20 am Post subject:
Spaces in directory names & script
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Hi all,
I got this codetaken from a script of mine:
for dirname in *;
do
if [ -d $dirname ]
then
echo entrando in: $dirname
cd $dirname
[CUT]
what must I do to make it handle directories with whitespaces in their
name?
Very thanks in advance,
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Poochieİ |
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