[ale] bash question

Kevin Krumwiede kjkrum at comcast.net
Tue Jul 22 01:30:57 EDT 2003


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?

Thanks,
Krum
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