[Sheflug] Annoying bash problem

["Jonathan Defries" <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evening all,

I'm having a problem with some bash code which 3 of my friends can't
figure out either, so I'm hoping someone can put me out of my misery.

Basically, I'm trying to do a little 2-line script that autogenerates a
file listing with links for files.

This is the script in its test state:

for i in `ls *`
{
echo Processing file: \"$i\"
awk '{print "<a href="$i">"$i"</a><br>"}'
}

Problem is that $i is splitting on lines, spaces and tabs, no good as some
filenames have spaces in them. I tried IFS="\n" and IFS='\n' but it's
using n for splitting, not newline.

This is on FreeBSD 4.8-PRELEASE with bash2.05a - can anyone suggest where
we are all going wrong please?

TIA,

Jonathan

-- 
Jonathan Defries
jonathan@sirtis.org.uk


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