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Subject: OT: spaces in pathnames
From: Lawrence Paulson <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:18:57 +0100

Can anybody point me to a tutorial on how to write shell scripts that work even if supplied pathnames contain spaces?

Specifically, I have to pass an argument list from one program to another. It seems that I have to write the filenames to a file. Using ls -db, I can write the filenames with special characters fully escaped. The second program (invoked via open-x11) somehow needs to read these filenames. If I use $(<$FILENAME), the filenames get split at the spaces despite the backslashes, e.g. Isabelle\ app\ bundle becomes three words.

Any thoughts? Some hack using IFS?

Larry Paulson


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