On 7 July 2013 20:18, Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 07/07/2013 12:03 PM, Steve Searle wrote: >> >> Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: >> >>> I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios >>> but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. >>> >>> ls *flv >>> >>> returns this: >>> >>> Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv >>> >>> But in a bash for loop it doesn't work. >>> >>> for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done >>> >>> returns this: >>> >>> Jorge >>> Drexler >>> - >>> Al >>> otro >>> Lado >>> del >>> Río.flv >>> >>> Anybody know how to keep $f intact? >> >> >> Look at the use of the IFS internal variable in bash and do something >> like: >> >> IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done >> > exactly what I needed. I'd never discovered IFS before > > all my youtube soundtracks can now move to google music! woohoo!!! > As you've discovered, spaces in machineable filenames aren't great. However for this case you may want to consider: for F in *flv ; do echo "$F" ; done The expanded *flv items are kept as single tokens. In fact this is why "ls *flv" works to start with, it's the shell that expands the * matches (globbing), not the ls command. ls just gets the separate file names as arguments. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
