Benjamin Smith wrote:
It's obviously getting slipped on on the "-b". Tried again: $ cat script3.sh #! /bin/bash for file in $* do ls -l -- "$file"; done $ /bin/bash ./script3.sh * -rw-r--r-- 1 bens nobody 5 2008-02-26 12:14 -b ls: cannot access Disney: No such file or directory ls: cannot access trip: No such file or directory ls: cannot access -a: No such file or directory ls: cannot access mother's: No such file or directory ls: cannot access journey.doc: No such file or directory -rwxr--r-- 1 bens nobody 103 2008-02-26 13:35 script1.sh -rwxr--r-- 1 bens nobody 26 2008-02-26 11:54 script2.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 bens nobody 57 2008-02-26 15:21 script3.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 bens nobody 55 2008-02-26 13:17 t
Still has bad errors, properly quoted, otherwise legal file names. Redefine IFS?
Still not properly quoted. What you need in the "for ..." line is the syntax that quotes each individual argument (so that embedded white space doesn't get treated as argument delimiters) while still maintaining "$1" "$2" "$3" etc. as separate arguments. That's what "$@" does:
for file in "$@" do ls -l -- "$file" done