Linux: whitespace im Dateinamen: Wie kann ich das lösen?

[Daniel (Gast)]

hello peoples,

Assume a file containing a list of filenames.

$cat list
ein langer sommerabend.txt
some other file

Now, I want to copy them all at once and write therefor a loop like this
$for i in $(cat list); do cp $i newdir; done

Obviuosly I am running into the "whitespace in a filename" problem
which I don't know how to solve. Does have somebody an advice
or a working solution for me?

Best regards, Daniel

[Chris S. (schris)]

Enclose the $i in double quotes and you don´t have the problem anymore.

[Stefan E. (sternst)]

Chris S. schrieb:
> Enclose the $i in double quotes and you don´t have the problem anymore.

Won't help because the input is already split into separate words by the 
"for i in $(cat list)".

(while read i; do cp "$i" newdir; done) <list

[Chris S. (schris)]

Then use the command apply, or use sed instead.
Apply is more simple and useful, check the man page.

sed would be something like this, remove the echo after testing.

sed -e 's/^[ \t]*/echo cp "/' -e 's,[ \t]*$," newdir,' list |sh

[Stefan E. (sternst)]

Chris S. schrieb:
> Then use the command apply, or use sed instead.
> Apply is more simple and useful, check the man page.
>
> sed would be something like this, remove the echo after testing.
>
> sed -e 's/^[ \t]*/echo cp "/' -e 's,[ \t]*$," newdir,' list |sh

Should this have any advantage over my solution?

[Fiedel (Gast)]

You have to set the InternalFieldSeperator-Variable to the newline char. 
Then bash will cut the input in lines, instead of token.

http://wi-fizzle.com/article/276

[(prx) A. K. (prx)]

xargs -d\\n cp -t newdir < list

[Stefan B. (stefan)]

[offtopic]
Usefull for filetransfers Windows <=> Linux...

detox
http://detox.sourceforge.net/
[/offtopic]

[P. S. (Gast)]

cat list | while read FILE; do cp "$FILE" newdir; done

[Daniel (Gast)]

Thank you.

(while read i; do cp "$i" newdir; done) <list

this one I like the most