Copying files with spaces in them

[Aviss,Tyler]

Wouldn't that still break on the spaces? If you have a file like "main  
data.dat", you will end up with two values of $file being:
main
data.data

While I agree that spaces may not be a good idea in general for many  
cases, how to make allowances for them in shell scripts?


On 28-Jan-09, at 6:04 PM, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org>  
wrote:

> 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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