OT: bash help

[Steve Searle]

Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled:

> I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios 
> but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces.
> 
> ls *flv
> 
> returns this:
> 
> Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv
> 
> But in a bash for loop it doesn't work.
> 
> for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done
> 
> returns this:
> 
> Jorge
> Drexler
> -
> Al
> otro
> Lado
> del
> Río.flv
> 
> Anybody know how to keep $f intact?

Look at the use of the IFS internal variable in bash and do something
like:

IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done

Steve


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