[SGVLUG] bash "for" with spaces [was: Re: Thanks for bash -c puzzle]

[Christopher Smith]

Where possible (and it is most often possible), the "find -print0 | xargs -0" idiom works well too.

--Chris

On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Rod Morison <rod at morison.biz> wrote:

> foo "$f"
> 
> On 4/19/2010 7:47 PM, John E. Kreznar wrote:
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>> While the subject of bash quoting is hot, does anyone know a simple
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>>    for f in * ; do foo $f ; done
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>> in cases where the directory has files whose names contain spaces?
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>> - --   John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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