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Using
sed, you first need to escape the space, and then escape the
back-slash.
(in
vi)
:%s/\
/\\\ /g
-Rob
How would I do that -
:g/ /s/\ /g doesn't seem to work.
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On Behalf Of Dege, Robert
C.
Sent: Tuesday, May 04,
2004 10:41 AM
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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 '\
'
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From: Cupp
Michael E Contr AFRL/DIB [mailto:Michael.Cupp@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:26
AM
To:
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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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