mkdir on directory names with spaces?

mpeters

Hi:


% iwperl -e '"/home/mpeters/testing/[1-2]/foo\ bar\ baz"=~m{(.*)\[(.+)\-(.+)\](.*)}x;for$i($2..$3){`mkdir -pm 775 $1$i$4`;}'


The above should create...

/home/mpeters/testing/1/foo bar baz/

/home/mpeters/testing/2/foo bar baz/

...but instead it creates...

/home/mpeters/testing/1/foo/

/home/mpeters/testing/2/foo/

...and it creates bar/ and baz/ wherever the one-liner is run.

Is there an alternative escape character I can use in place of the '\ ' character?

ISCBorisB

but instead it creates... /home/mpeters/testing/1/foo/ /home/mpeters/testing/2/foo/ ...and it creates bar/ and baz/ wherever the one-liner is run.

What did you expect? mkdir Syntax is mkdir [-M Mode] [-p] Directory [Directory [Directory...]] You run something like
mkdir -pm 775 /home/mpeters/testing/1/foo bar baz
mkdir -pm 775 /home/mpeters/testing/2/foo bar baz

Sure it creates .../1/foo and bar, buz wherever your script was running. You can modify your code to `mkdir -pm 775 \"$1$i$4\"`
see if that helps.

By the way, what any of that has to do to escape symbol, alternative or otherwise?