Bash script glitch

[santanudas]

I’ve got another problem with bash script. If I do this on the console I get it write:

[MacUsers@pcge ~]$ find ~/scripts -type l | grep iTest
/home/MacUsers/scripts/iTest File
[MacUsers@pcge ~]$ find ~/scripts -type l | grep iTest | sed 's/ /\\ /g'
/home/MacUsers/scripts/iTest\ File

But running it as a script, I get it wrong:

#!/bin/bash -f
#
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=''
for file in $( find ~/scripts -type l | grep iTest )
do
  echo $file
done
DAS=`echo ${file} | tr '' \\\n | sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
echo "The new one :: " $DAS

Any idea why? Any help is very much appreciated. Many Thanks!!

 

[thedaver]

Why does your script use "tr" and your command example does not?

What user are you running the script under?

D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting

http://www.dermanagement.com/

 

[santanudas]

Hi guys,

I have fixed that (I hope so.)I forgot to mention that I was trying that code on OS X. Replacing

sed 's/ /\\ /g'

with

sed 's/ /\\\ /g'

worked for me. Though I don’t know why.

Why does your script use "tr" and your command example does not?

I was using that “command example” as a command directly on the console but the one in that script wasn’t the direct implementation of the command; in stead I was substituting the input of "$file" to form the command and that's why 'tr' came in.