Executing commands containing space in bash
- by Epitaph
I have a file named cmd that contains a list of unix commands as follows:
hostname
pwd
ls /tmp
cat /etc/hostname
ls -la
ps -ef | grep java
cat cmd
I have another script that executes the commands in cmd as:
IFS=$'\n'
clear
for cmds in `cat cmd`
do
if [ $cmds ] ; then
$cmds;
echo "****************************";
fi
done
The problem is that commands in cmd without spaces run fine, but those with spaces are not correctly interpreted by the script. Following is the output:
patrick-laptop
****************************
/home/patrick/bashFiles
****************************
./prog.sh: line 6: ls /tmp: No such file or directory
****************************
./prog.sh: line 6: cat /etc/hostname: No such file or directory
****************************
./prog.sh: line 6: ls -la: command not found
****************************
./prog.sh: line 6: ps -ef | grep java: command not found
****************************
./prog.sh: line 6: cat cmd: command not found
****************************
What am I missing here?
