Re: [Nolug] spaces in environment variables conflicting with "echo"

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 17:12, Yuji Yamano wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > $ ls -1 |grep ' '
> > foo bar
> > foo snafu
> > $
> > $ for f in `ls -1 |grep ' '`;
> > > do
> > > echo "$f";
> > > done
> > foo
> > bar
> > foo
> > snafu
> >
> >
> > Naturally, I don't want that!!! What's the magical sequence of
> > characters to get it to print out the complete file names?
>
> How about this? It works fine for me on Darwin.
>
> localhost% for f in "`ls | grep ' '`";
> for> do
> for> echo "$f"
> for> done
> foo bar
> foo snafu
> localhost%

Arigato. It never occurred to me to put dquotes around the ls/grep
command flow.

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