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From: "David Gómez" <david@pleyades.net>
To: Zsh-users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Positional parameters with more than one space
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:50:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129225017.GA9097@fargo> (raw)

Hi all ;),

I'm coding a shell function that receives several files as parameters. These
files usually will have spaces in its names, so i want this function to
work correctly with spaces. 

I'm using the $@ array to iterate thru all parameters, with a for loop:

for i in "$@"; do
 something
done

And it works fine, except when a file has more that one space in its name.
I mean, if one of the files is "more than  one space", after the $@
expansion it transforms to "more that one space" which obviously doesn't
exists. How can i avoid this?

Thanks a lot,

-- 
David Gómez

"The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
 whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra


             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-29 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-29 22:50 David Gómez [this message]
2004-01-30  0:23 ` Bob Schmertz
2004-02-02  8:52   ` David Gómez

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