bash - Adding double quotes to last field of ls command output -

i writing shell script , files(zip) in directory using ls command , unzip them in destination , problem file name having spaces between ,so when script scanning considering name after space

example: if file name "a b c.zip" , c.zip considered file name , file not found.

so please let me know how handle

i thought if can enclose file name in double quotes should work.so looking how can add double quote last field of ls command . need field of ls command since checking file size , timestamp before unzip ,so need enclose file name double quotes last field of ls command.

regards, sathya

i'd suggest use bash's wildcard patterns (which deal white spaces you) file list , use stat command info specific file. example:

$ ls -l total 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2013-03-25 16:27 b c.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2013-03-25 16:27 d e f.txt $ file in *.txt; stat "$file"; done   file: `a b c.txt'   size: 0               blocks: 1          io block: 131072 regular empty file device: 3dd0002h/64815106d      inode: 455629      links: 1 access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  uid: (    0/    root)   gid: (    0/    root) access: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388291856 +0800 modify: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388291856 +0800 change: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388310939 +0800   file: `d e f.txt'   size: 0               blocks: 1          io block: 131072 regular empty file device: 3dd0002h/64815106d      inode: 455630      links: 1 access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  uid: (    0/    root)   gid: (    0/    root) access: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388401772 +0800 modify: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388401772 +0800 change: 2013-03-25 16:27:35.388412772 +0800 $ 

note stat has --format option can tell give info interested in files.