[Qgis-user] help to list files by bourne-shell

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2012/06/20 16:36, Jan Tappenbeck wrote:
> hi !
>
> i want to create a script for use in msys - but i am not a linux-user. 
> i try to create this by a template:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # Einfaches Beispiel
>
> for i in C:/Users/tappenbeck/Desktop/Project/*;
> do
> if [ -d "$i" ];
> then
> echo $i is directory;
> fi;
> done
>
> but there will no files list - can anyone help me ?
>
> reagards Jan :-)
>
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The syntax should be:

for i in `ls xxx/*`
do
etc

but if you have spaces in your file names, i will contain the words 
delimited by these spaces.

fiddle with something like:

ls -1 xxx/* > myfiles
while read i
do
   wadda-wadda
done<myfiles
rm myfiles

HTH,
Zoltan

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