Bash passing a filename with a space into xargs?

[Chris Roberts]

How can I get this to recognize a filename with a space?
I am manipulating files in my script, but at the portion where I want to do a diff. I cannot get it to work.
Would someone out there know of a workaround? (Besides saying "don't have filenames with spaces in them). :-)

This is in bash:
uno="try this.txt"
dos=blah.pdf
echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1' | xargs
#OUT: uno:try dos:this

echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1'
#OUT: uno:try dos:this

echo uno:"$uno", dos:"$dos" #this works, but doesn't help in my script.
#OUT: uno:try this.txt, dos:blah.pdf

thanks,
crzzy1

[Michael F. Stemper]

Post by Chris Roberts
How can I get this to recognize a filename with a space?
I am manipulating files in my script, but at the portion where I want to do a diff. I cannot get it to work.
Would someone out there know of a workaround? (Besides saying "don't have filenames with spaces in them). :-)
uno="try this.txt"
dos=blah.pdf
echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1' | xargs
#OUT: uno:try dos:this
echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1'
#OUT: uno:try dos:this
echo uno:"$uno", dos:"$dos" #this works, but doesn't help in my script.
#OUT: uno:try this.txt, dos:blah.pdf

I can't quite tell what you're trying to do, but single quotes around
the definition of uno seems to help:


============================
#!/bin/bash

uno='try this.txt'
dos=blah.pdf

ls "$uno" "$dos"
============================

[Lewis]

Post by Michael F. Stemper

Post by Chris Roberts
How can I get this to recognize a filename with a space?
I am manipulating files in my script, but at the portion where I want to do a diff. I cannot get it to work.
Would someone out there know of a workaround? (Besides saying "don't have filenames with spaces in them). :-)
uno="try this.txt"
dos=blah.pdf
echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1' | xargs
#OUT: uno:try dos:this
echo "$uno" "$dos" | xargs -l bash -c 'echo uno:$0 dos:$1'
#OUT: uno:try dos:this
echo uno:"$uno", dos:"$dos" #this works, but doesn't help in my script.
#OUT: uno:try this.txt, dos:blah.pdf

I can't quite tell what you're trying to do, but single quotes around
============================
#!/bin/bash
uno='try this.txt'
dos=blah.pdf
ls "$uno" "$dos"
============================

Also, IFS=$'\n' is an option.