On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am writing some shell scripts, but I run into some problems. > I have a dir name which has space in it. I know this is bad but I can't > avoid it. I am forced to deal with this situation. How do I set a > variable that contain the dir name which has space in it. I tried > several ways: > > $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb > $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" > $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb' > > ls $PDB > > give me error. is there a way or no way? > > -- > Edwin ERTW Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkdir a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld a space drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 a drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rmdir a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld a space ls: a: No such file or directory ls: space: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkdir "a space" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld a space ls: a: No such file or directory ls: space: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld "a space" drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# X=a space bash: space: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $X
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# X="a space" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $X a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo "$X" a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld $x drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld $X ls: a: No such file or directory ls: space: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld "$X" drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# exit -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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