[ale] Keep space separated values sane in a bash "for" loop?
Christopher Bergeron
christopher at bergeron.com
Thu Apr 5 19:59:25 EDT 2007
Guys, I'm not sure how to word my question appropriately, so I'll try to
explain what I'm trying to do in code.
I have a bash for loop, and when it encounters a value with a space, it
splits it into separate entities. For example:
With a file list of:
/bin
/usr
/Virtual Machines
and a code snippet of:
for i in *; do
echo "Filename is: $i"
done
The output is:
Filename is: bin
Filename is: usr
Filename is: Virtual
Filename is: Machines
How can I tell bash to keep these values together, so that I get the
filenames intact as:
Filename is: bin
Filename is: usr
Filename is: Virtual Machines
Thanks in advance...
Kind regards,
Chris Bergeron
http://chrisbergeron.com
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