Very Computer

I'm looking at something like
================================
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(ls -R /home/user1/Test)
do
echo $i
done
================================
The problem with this is that it puts each seperate word on its own
line.  I cannot do anything with it like 'tail $i'.  

T.

        Ed.

Quote:> T.

Quote:> How can I get a directory listing of a directory that has files with
> spaces in the names.

> I'm looking at something like
> ================================
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in $(ls -R /home/user1/Test)
> do
> echo $i
> done
> ================================
> The problem with this is that it puts each seperate word on its own
> line.  I cannot do anything with it like 'tail $i'.  

> T.

Try:

ls -R /home/user1/Test | while read line
do
        echo "$line"
done

Remember , it's "$line" NOT $line

$ touch "foo bar"
$ ls foo* | while read line; do wc $line;done
wc: cannot open foo
wc: cannot open bar
        0       0       0 total

$ ls foo* | while read line; do wc "$line";done
        0       0       0 foo bar
$

a=x
b="y z"

ls $a $b

the shell expand this to ls x y z   , but ls can't know if y z is one word or two.
but ls "$a" "$b" will work, since the command will be ls "x" "y z"

/bb

Quote:>> ================================
>> #!/bin/sh
>> for i in $(ls -R /home/user1/Test)
>> do
>> echo $i
>> done
>> ================================
>> The problem with this is that it puts each seperate word on its own
>> line.  I cannot do anything with it like 'tail $i'.  

>> T.

> Your shebang is /bin/sh, but $(command) is a bash thing, that works for you since /bin/sh is a link
> to /bin/bash on your machine.  `command` is the sh syntax.

Quote:> ls -R /home/user1/Test | while read line
> do
>    echo "$line"
> done

> Remember , it's "$line" NOT $line

> $ touch "foo bar"
> $ ls foo* | while read line; do wc $line;done
> wc: cannot open foo
> wc: cannot open bar
>         0       0       0 total

> $ ls foo* | while read line; do wc "$line";done
>         0       0       0 foo bar
> $

touch ./-c './foo\ bar' './foo '

It should be:

ls foo* | while IFS= read -r line; do wc -- "$line"; done

(read -r is not Bourne but is POSIX).

(Still, that doesn't work for filenames with newlines)

--
Stephane