On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:22:06 -0500, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash
> experts, so I figured I'd try here.
>
> I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory
> who's name includes a space (long story, but it's a windows directory under
> Win98 on a machine on my network).
>
> Anyway, supposing that the directory is "/mount/windows/spaced name" and I
> need to copy all of the files in the directory to a target.
>
> At a bash prompt, I can issue either:
> cp "/mount/windows/spaced name/*" target
> OR
> cp /mount/windows/spaced\ name/* target
> and all works fine.
>
> However, from within a bash script, something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sourcedir=/mount/windows/spaced\ name
> cp $sourcedir/* target
cp "${sourcedir}"/* target
Need the "*" outside the quotes since it's the shell doing the globbing,
not "cp".
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
