'ls' question, splitting and files with spaces in their name...

[Kevin Cozens]

At 09:48 AM 05/22/2004, Madison wrote:
>   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.

Seems simple to handle. Tell the 'ls' command to add the escape for 
filenames/dirs containing spaces. Change the escaped space to the three 
chars %20, split on spaces, then change "%20" back to either a single space 
or an escaped space.


Cheers!

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