Timeline for Iterate over multiple parameters with spaces in bash script
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2013 at 13:26 | comment | added | 0xC0000022L |
@ruakh: that's exactly when xargs comes in handy. Last paragraph of my answer.
|
|
| Feb 11, 2013 at 0:10 | comment | added | ruakh | But what if the filenames contain newlines? | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 22:16 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas |
the latter is a kshism, copied by zsh and bash. When you use read, you need the -r option and remove the white space characters from $IFS (like IFS= read -r i) unless you need the special behaviour of read if you don't
|
|
| Feb 10, 2013 at 21:48 | history | answered | 0xC0000022L | CC BY-SA 3.0 |