Mike Bird wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:23, David Berg wrote:
I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of
directories and runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting right
though. Most of the directories have spaces and they are making
things difficult for me. Here is what I have:
for DIR in dir\ 1 dir\ 2 dir\ 3; do
cd $DIR
pwd
cd ..
done
The spaces in $DIR aren't escaped.
Any help, including a pointer to the relevant part of TFM, is much appreciated.
cd "$DIR"
Regarding the "FM" pointer request:
See "man bash" and the section titled "QUOTING."
Daniel
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