[ale] Keep space separated values sane in a bash "for" loop?

[Jerry Yu]

depends on your needs, you could change the delimiter to NULL instead of the
default 'space'.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

On 4/5/07, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you are using ls you could try looking into the Q option. It
> double-quotes
> the output.
>
> ls -Q
>
> Best regards,
>
> J. D.
>
> On 4/5/07, Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> wrote:
> >
> > Guys, I'm not sure how to word my question appropriately, so I'll try to
> > explain what I'm trying to do in code.
> >
> > I have a bash for loop, and when it encounters a value with a space, it
> > splits it into separate entities.  For example:
> >
> > With a file list of:
> > /bin
> > /usr
> > /Virtual Machines
> >
> > and a code snippet of:
> >
> > for i in *; do
> > echo "Filename is: $i"
> > done
> >
> > The output is:
> >
> > Filename is: bin
> > Filename is: usr
> > Filename is: Virtual
> > Filename is: Machines
> >
> > How can I tell bash to keep these values together, so that I get the
> > filenames intact as:
> > Filename is: bin
> > Filename is: usr
> > Filename is: Virtual Machines
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Chris Bergeron
> > http://chrisbergeron.com
> >
> >
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