RE: Unix Scripting Question

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Using sed, you first need to escape the space, and then escape the back-slash.
 
(in vi)
 
:%s/\ /\\\ /g
 
-Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Cupp Michael E Contr AFRL/DIB [mailto:Michael.Cupp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:51 AM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: Unix Scripting Question

How would I do that - :g/ /s/\ /g doesn't seem to work.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dege, Robert C.
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:41 AM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: Unix Scripting Question

 

Your problem could be that you need to escape the spaces in the file names prior to running your test.

 

Modify your a.lst file & replace all spaces ' ' with slash space '\ '

 

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Cupp Michael E Contr AFRL/DIB [mailto:Michael.Cupp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:26 AM
To: 'redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Unix Scripting Question

I have a file (a.lst) that has a list of fully pathed filenames, 1 per line - in this format:

"/path/to/the/name_of_file.doc"
"/path/to/the/other/name of the doc noting spaces.doc"

I need to know how I can loop through this file, a.lst, and for each entry, perform a test -s on it. If it exists, I want to put the entry into exists.txt, if it does not, I want to put the entry in noexist.txt -

Can someone please help me? (I've tried for foo in `cat a.lst`, but due to the spaces in 90% of the filenames, it pukes, as it appears to be using space as the delimiter)


Thanks again,
Michael

 

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