[NTLUG:Discuss] Bash script help

[Kevin Lee]

If you're using bash or ksh you might try changing the IFS variable to be
the newline:


export IFS=$'\n';for i in *.srt;do echo "File: $i";cat -n "$i";done


By default IFS is a space, a tab or a new line. You may want to unset IFS
after your loop, otherwise the rest of the script may behave differently
than expected.


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 15:30, daniel <daniel at yacg.com> wrote:

> I am trying to search through some subtitle files for some key words and
> phrases.  They are ASCII test files.  The filenames have spaces in them.
>  The command I am trying is like this:
>
> for i in *.srt; do echo File: \"$i\" ; cat -n \"$i\" ; done
>
> The "echo" part works fine.  The "cat" part seems to be breaking up the
> filename by spaces and trying to cat files named by the individual parts of
> the filename delimited by spaces.
>
> As you can see, I attemtped to fix the problem by enclosing it in quotes
> but it didn't work.  Running the command manually and enclosing in quotes
> works just fine though.
>
> There is probably a very easy and obvious answer but I'm just not getting
> it.
>
>
>
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