scripting problem

[Steven Buehler]

Perfect.  Thank You SO MUCH.  That did the trick.
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Broekman, Maarten
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:09 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: scripting problem
> 
> You could push the ls output through sed to remove the spaces for the
> for-loop and then again when you are inside the loop.
> 
> DIRSTOBACKUP=`/bin/ls -d1 /home/user/* | /bin/sed -e 's/ /=/g'`
> for NAMEDIR in ${DIRSTOBACKUP[@]}
>  do
>      DIR=`echo $NAMEDIR | /bin/sed -e 's/=/ /g'`
>      echo $DIR
>  done
> 
> It's a bit round-about but it'll get around the spaces.
> 
> 
> Maarten Broekman
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Bliss
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:01 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: scripting problem
> 
> Steve,
> The easiest way to work around the space problem is to just use tar to
> backup the home directory.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Steven Buehler wrote:
> > I am hoping that someone here can help me with this.  I am running a
> little
> > script that backs up some directories for me.  Below is snippet that
> gets me
> > into trouble.
> > ---------------------
> > #!/bin/sh
> > DIRSTOBACKUP=`/bin/ls -d1 /home/user/*`
> > for NAMEDIR in ${DIRSTOBACKUP[@]}
> > do
> > echo $NAMEDIR
> > done
> > ---------------------
> >
> > The problem is that some of the directories have spaces in the names.
> When
> > running the for loop, it will take the new NAMEDIR at the space.  So
> "Red
> > Hat" would end up listing as 2 directories, "Red" and "Hat".  Any way
> around
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steve
> >
> >
> 
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