Re: Bash problems

Nathan England wrote:

>I am trying to make a script that copies files from one directory to another.
>The problem is, some files have a space in between the names, think "My
>Documents"
>
>I need a way in bash to copy a file from one directory to another.
>At the same time, I need to be able to count the files.
>
>Currently, I'm trying something like this.
>
>find . | tee file_list
>while read file
>do
>cp -ruv $file $TMP/backup
>done < file_list
>
>This works great, but files such as "My Documents" can not be found by cp. It
>sees it as My and Documents.
>
>I thought there was a way to get find to report the space with a leading \ but
>I can't find that and I forgot how I did it before. Can anyone help with
>this?
>I greatly appreciate it!
>
>Nathan
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Have you tried actually using double quotes as in "My Documents?" That
should prevent the shell from reading the whitespace as a separation
between two distinct terms.

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