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Oyabi
Oyabi

Reputation: 914

Iteration with ls and space in name of file

I use bash on Ubuntu and I have some files in a folder, some with space in their name, other non.

I would like an array with file's name. Example : [foo.txt, I am a file.txt, bar.jpg, etc.]

My code :

for x in "$(ls -1 test/)"; do 
    fileList+=($x)
done

I get : [foo.txt, I, am, a, file.txt, bar.jpg, etc.]

If I put fileList+=("$x") I get one line array [foo.txt I am a file.txt bar.jpg etc.].

How can I do to get what I want?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 105

Answers (2)

ensc
ensc

Reputation: 6984

Why not use shell globs? E.g.

for x in test/*; do
     ...

or

filelist=( test/* )

EDIT:

shopt -s nullglob
shopt -s dotglob

might be also wanted.

Upvotes: 5

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207375

Try using read, like this:

ls | while read f ; do
   echo "$f"
done

Upvotes: -1

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