script.sh: line 5: cd: 'baa foo ': No such file or directory
but when I manually enter cd'baa foo' it works fine.
Why could that be? (the echo retuns something like “foo baa #” .)
It really confuses me that the cd with the exact same string works when I enter it manually. I have allready tried leaving out the quotes in the cd command and escaping the spaces using dir=$(printf %q "${dir}"); before the cd but that did not work either.
tbh I am new to shell scripts so maybe there is something obvious I overlooked.
You’re probably over-complicating things. Have you heard about the find -print0 | xargs -0 idiom? all that variable interpolation (dir=${dir:2}) and quoting "'""${dir}""'" is better to be dealt by the built-in shell tools. Or you could write a script for the whole body of that while loop, and then call find . -exec ./action.sh {} \;. Same script could be used with the previously mentioned idiom too, you’d need to use bash -c ./action.sh though. One advantage of “find | xargs” is that you can run these concurrently, paralellizing the action to all your dirs, in groups, of say 4 of them… and so on… it’s cool and simple.
can anyone help me figure out, why the following shell script does not work:
#!/bin/bash while IFS= read -d $'\0' -r "dir" ; do dir=${dir:2}; echo "${dir}"\#; cd "'""${dir}""'" ; ls; ##doing something else # cd ..; done < <(find ./ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0)I am running it in a location with a lots of folders containing spaces (think of it like this:
/location containing spaces# ls 'foo ba' 'baa foo ' 'tee pot'I get errors of the following form:
but when I manually enter
cd 'baa foo'it works fine. Why could that be? (the echo retuns something like “foo baa #” .) It really confuses me that the cd with the exact same string works when I enter it manually. I have allready tried leaving out the quotes in the cd command and escaping the spaces usingdir=$(printf %q "${dir}");before the cd but that did not work either.tbh I am new to shell scripts so maybe there is something obvious I overlooked.
You’re probably over-complicating things. Have you heard about the
find -print0 | xargs -0idiom? all that variable interpolation (dir=${dir:2}) and quoting"'""${dir}""'"is better to be dealt by the built-in shell tools. Or you could write a script for the whole body of that while loop, and then callfind . -exec ./action.sh {} \;. Same script could be used with the previously mentioned idiom too, you’d need to usebash -c ./action.shthough. One advantage of “find | xargs” is that you can run these concurrently, paralellizing the action to all your dirs, in groups, of say 4 of them… and so on… it’s cool and simple.