[TriLUG] RE with bash

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

running the script with sh -x I have

echo "directories=$directories"

     gives

directories=A|Flash\ Player|foo

(where A is a directory that will be listed before Flash\ 
Player)

then I do

IFS="|"; for directory in $directories
do
 	echo "directory $directory"
 	cd $directory
 	cd ../
done

This goes fine for directory A.
Watching with 'sh -x' I see 'cd A'.

When the script gets to Flash\ Player the cd
command is

cd 'Flash\ Player'

(note single quotes) which fails.

It appears that bash is encapsulating Flash\ Player in the 
single quotes otherwise the '\' doesn't survive.

$ directory=Flash\ Player
$ echo $directory
Flash Player
$ cd $directory  #fails

instead, encapsulating the directory name, the '\' survives
but now you can't use it.

$ directory='Flash\ Player'
$ echo $directory
Flash\ Player
$ cd $directory  #fails

however doing it by hand (non-programmatically)

$ cd Flash\ Player   #works

other attempts

$ directory=Flash\\ Player #command Player not found

$ directory="Flash\\ Player"
$ echo $directory
Flash\ Player
$ cd $directory
Flash\ Player: no such file or directly

Any ideas on doing this programmatically?

Thanks Joe


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