On July 31, 2015, Tony Baechler wrote: > To directly answer your question, bash tries to process each word > of the filename separately, even when you put them in quotes, at > least in a for loop. If you manually process one at a time, it > works fine. I don't know why it doesn't work in a for loop even > with quoting the filename, but it doesn't. You have to tell bash > to not treat space as a separator. It's a matter of what is doing the expanding. If you do for f in * ; do echo "$f" ; done it should work fine, mimicking "ls". The "*" expands once, giving one "f" value for each file in input. Then when referencing it, you have to make sure that you quote the variable as well, or your command(s) will see that value split on white-space, rather than the entire value. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list