Re: help, help scripting masters

* captgoodnight@acsalaska.net <captgoodnight@acsalaska.net> [2004-03-21 20:23 -0900]:
> command --folder a\ folder\ with\ spaces
> now in a bash script, say,
>
> cd "$FOLDER"
> ls "$FOLDER"
>
> I haven't found a way to hold the escapes in a variable, do the
> escapes get removed when entering the variable or when using the
> variable? I'm stumped. It's gotta be something simple, as always. |;0)

Just tried this out on my system:

mkdir "bleah no"
LIST=`ls -d ble*`
ls -d "${LIST}"
rm "${LIST}"

Maybe try to use the ${VARNAME} syntax?

Regards,

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dave [ please don't CC me ]
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