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Reputation: 111

Linux read whitespaces and special characters

I want to read with whitespaces and special characters because I need to delete file with the name of that string. I don't know how to deal with "\" and last spaces in read; I am probably doing it wrong.

     while read LINE
  do
    for arg in $LINE
    do  
    if [ "${args}" = "" ]
    then
        args="${args}"
    else
        args="${args}' '"
    fi     
    args="${args}${arg}"
    done

I need to do something like that echo sadsad asddsa ;' dsasa | ./sth.sh | xargs -l rm -f

I think that I need to set IFS to "|" but it doesn't work properly. I need to read input end call it.

EDIT: Ok, I think I only need to do something with xargs and sed.

Ok, almost thant I have some errors but I get file name

find  *.txt -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

This works fine for me :). Problem probably solved.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1917

Answers (1)

ninjalj
ninjalj

Reputation: 43688

Try:

while read -r line
do
  echo rm -- "$line"
done

-r means that backslash don't get special treatment.

Upvotes: 2

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