{"id":3766,"date":"2018-02-08T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2018-02-08T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:34:55","slug":"how-can-i-escape-white-space-in-a-bash-loop-list-stack-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/02\/08\/how-can-i-escape-white-space-in-a-bash-loop-list-stack-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I escape white space in a bash loop list? – Stack Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nI find this nice and elegant. The other proposed solutions may handle files with newline in their name, but currently I see such file names as nonsense\n<\/div>\n
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<span class="pln">find <\/span><span class="pun">.<\/span> <span class="pun">-<\/span><span class="pln">type d <\/span><span class="pun">|<\/span> <span class="kwd">while<\/span><span class="pln"> read file<\/span><span class="pun">;<\/span> <span class="kwd">do<\/span><span class="pln"> echo $file<\/span><span class="pun">;<\/span> <span class="kwd">done<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n
However, doesn’t work if the file-name contains newlines. The above is the only solution i know of when you actually want to have the directory name in a variable. If you just want to execute some command, use xargs.<\/p>\n
<span class="pln">find <\/span><span class="pun">.<\/span> <span class="pun">-<\/span><span class="pln">type d <\/span><span class="pun">-<\/span><span class="pln">print0 <\/span><span class="pun">|<\/span><span class="pln"> xargs <\/span><span class="pun">-<\/span><span class="lit">0<\/span><span class="pln"> echo <\/span><span class="str">'The directory is: '<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Sorgente: How can I escape white space in a bash loop list? – Stack Overflow<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
Furthermore BASH Shell: For Loop File Names With Spaces<\/a> suggets:<\/p>\n
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find . -print0 | while read -d $'\\0' file\ndo\n  echo -v \"$file\"\ndone

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that should handle even the weirdest file name<\/p>\n
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I find this nice and elegant. The other proposed solutions may handle files with newline in their name, but currently I see such file names as nonsense <span class="pln">find <\/span><span class="pun">.<\/span> <span class="pun">-<\/span><span class="pln">type d <\/span><span class="pun">|<\/span> <span class="kwd">while<\/span><span class="pln"> read file<\/span><span class="pun">;<\/span> <span class="kwd">do<\/span><span class="pln"> echo $file<\/span><span class="pun">;<\/span> <span class="kwd">done<\/span> However, doesn’t work if…<\/p>\n
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