barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agowhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squarewhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebizdelnick@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agotouch a b c 'd e f' 'g h i' for f in *; do ls -la "$f"; done fxd
minus-squareGenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoThat will work in either zsh or bash, yes. It’s a good habit to use quotes, but I am pointing out that quoting and expansion behavior is not the same across all shells.
minus-squarebizdelnick@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoIt’s the same across all POSIX compliant shells. zsh is not POSIX compliant.
touch a b c 'd e f' 'g h i' for f in *; do ls -la "$f"; donefxd
That will work in either zsh or bash, yes. It’s a good habit to use quotes, but I am pointing out that quoting and expansion behavior is not the same across all shells.
It’s the same across all POSIX compliant shells.
zshis not POSIX compliant.