Copying files with spaces in them

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Christopher Browne wrote:

> I've got a Makefile that is trying to copy man pages into place;
> unfortunately, since they are (somewhat legitimately) created with
> spaces in them,

    There's NO excuse for that.

> the following breaks:
>
>        for file in $(wildcard man1/*) ; do \
>          $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1 || exit;\
>       done
>       for file in $(wildcard man7/*) ; do \
>         $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man7 || exit;\
>       done
>
> I'll bet Chris Johnson would have a better idiom he could suggest offhand ;-).

     A makefile is not a shell script. In a shell script, I would use:

for file in man1/*
do
    cp "$file" "$DESTDIR/$mandir"/man1 || exit
done

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