Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: No support for spaces in for loop Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Lines: 44 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <55D3A2ED.4030302@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1439938554 29384 208.118.235.17 (18 Aug 2015 22:55:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: Yan Pashkovsky Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=smtpcorp.com; s=a0-2; h=Feedback-ID:X-Smtpcorp-Track:Message-ID:Subject:To: From:Date; bh=CEcZdxWRmwo2Tlu7VW9tBZ3AY0sQ0N6qt+9DhlOQa1M=; b=rKyarj5MtWt9K9Y N4ZXdpyxBHtb8rD9w+dSHXg8ZVH11uFG/iXqxsPR7ME3KQKuKuoqRmdK4OntK1GigrqXjhSpzZl4P UqUUwCszasV3CQGWCzr+Si0L79Qhe2apT36VT3bST+xAGaPAvMoWwTQPMJyQpo1Y0pm83Yx20J8WT knCznygTyEo8/skCjZRs0Zf0kCBIIZXJFFzIcjwAcCAtrkZQnDJU3fwUr3sFg1HWo+yMobdy5X9P0 vSAnSHFTCQtkFirF70keUv5mQe6+NbAMPvhXGTQoNKX24PGmWXhEuAJGhbs6+gZtPfigBc5cDslnp 1xZ9BIBrUnfblGuZ1pA==; X-X-Sender: chris@chris.tor In-Reply-To: <55D3A2ED.4030302@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) X-Smtpcorp-Track: 1ZRpnENRKF35ex.06fyodvDI Feedback-ID: 124612m:124612a-vpTX9:124612sqGtsmF9xo:SMTPCORP X-Report-Abuse: Please forward a copy of this message, including all headers, to X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.22.15.234 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11390 On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Yan Pashkovsky wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' > -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../. -I.././include -I.././lib -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 > -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat > -Werror=format-security -Wall > uname output: Linux mint-desktop 3.16.0-43-generic #58~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon > Jun 22 10:21:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 11 > Release Status: release > > Description: > "for file in *" doesn't correctly parse files containing spaces in > their filenames. For example file "an image of duck.jpg" will be interpreted > as 4 files "an" "image" "of" "duck.jpg" Yes, it does. Your problem is (probably, since you didn't include an example) that you omitted quotes around its expansion, e.g.: printf '%s\n' $file That should be: printf '%s\n' "$file" > Repeat-By: > > > -- Chris F.A. Johnson,