[ale] bash question

[mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 01:30 am, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I want to do something to all the files whose names are listed in a text
> file, like this:
>
> for fname in $(cat filelist); do ...; done
>
> The problem is, some of the file names have spaces.  For example, 'My
> Song.mp3'.  The action is performed on 'My', and then on 'Song.mp3'. 
> How do I make it so each line of the file list is treated as a single
> word?

Use the read command:

while read fname; do cp "$fname" /tmp; done < filelist

Michael

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