'ls' question, splitting and files with spaces in their name...
Madison Kelly
linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat May 22 13:48:20 UTC 2004
Hi all,
I need to read in the results of an 'ls' call to a bunch of variables
(in Perl) and I am doing so like this:
=- Snip
open (LS, "ls -lA '$mnt_dir' 2>&1 |");
while (<LS>)
{
s/\n//;
# The first $perm will be "total"
($perm, $num, $owner, $group, $size, $month, $day, $time_year,
$file)=split/\s+/;
=- Snip
My problem is that I am just straight splitting on spaces and some
files and directory names have spaces in them. I read the 'ls' man page
and the closest thing I could find was a switch to add an escape
character before the space but that would only be marginally helpful.
What I need is some way to show the file or directory name with some
other character instead of a space so that the first split will leave
the file or directory name intact wherein after I could substitute the
space back.
Anyone have any ideas that might help?
The only thing I can think of is to add a whole bunch of $file1,
$file2, $file3, ... $file# and then splice them back together but that
would be cumbersome and also create a limit on the number of spaces that
could be in a file name (and risk missing those above that).
Thanks yet again all!!
Madison
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