Copying files with spaces in them

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

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, 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

Can you clarify the issue, whether:
  a) The source directory is "wildcard man1" whose name contain 
space,
  b) The source files under source directory have names with 
spaces in them, or
  c) both?

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