[ILUG] Spaces in arguments in a bash for loop

[Niall O Broin]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:38:10AM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> o  Try setting IFS (inter-field separator or something) to _not_
>    include a space.  Then word splitting will not happen at spaces.
>    Something like
> 
>       OLDIFS=$IFS IFS='\n' for i in `stuff with CR & spaces` ; do
>          echo $i
>       done
>       IFS=$OLDIFS

That does nicely. In fact, for my purposes it suffices to do

export IFS=

before my loop so I have no IFS.


Thanks Kenn, and others who replied.



Regards,


Niall